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008 141121s2015 nyu g 000 1 eng d
020 _a9780385353779 (hardcover : alk. paper)
020 _a9780804172950 (pbk. : alk. paper)
020 _z9780385353786 (ebook)
040 _aMPL
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041 0 _aara
082 0 0 _a823.03
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100 1 _aHallberg, Garth Risk
245 1 0 _aCity on fire
_cGarth Risk Hallberg
250 _aFirst edition
264 1 _aNew York
_bAlfred A. Knopf
_c2015
300 _a903 pages
_c25 سم
336 _aنص
336 _atext
_2rdacontent
337 _aبدون وسيط
337 _aunmediated
_2rdamedia
338 _aكتاب
338 _avolume
_2rdacarrier
520 _aThe all-too-human individuals who live within this extraordinary first novel are: Regan and William Hamilton-Sweeney, estranged heirs to one of the city's biggest fortunes; Keith and Mercer, the men who, for better or worse, love them; Charlie and Sam, two Long Island teenagers seduced by downtown's nascent punk scene; an obsessive magazine reporter; his spunky, West Coast-transplant neighbor; and the detective trying to figure out what they all have to do with a shooting in Central Park. From post-Vietnam youth culture to the fiscal crisis, from a lushly appointed townhouse on Sutton Place to a derelict squat on East 3rd Street, this city on fire is at once recognizable and completely unexpected. And when the infamous blackout of July 13th, 1977 plunges it into darkness, each of these entangled lives will be changed, irrevocably
596 _a1
655 0 0 _aMystery fiction
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999 _c106848
_d106848