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City on fire

Summary: The 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.

Record details

  • ISBN: 9780385353779
  • ISBN: 0385353774
  • ISBN: 9780804172950
  • ISBN: 0804172951
  • Physical Description: print
    903 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
  • Edition: First edition.
  • Publisher: New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2015.

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:
Includes bibliographical references.
Formatted Contents Note:
We have met the enemy, and he is us -- The family business -- Scenes from private life -- The fireworkers, part 1 -- Liberty Heights -- The impossibility of death in the mind of anyone now living -- Monads -- Bridge and tunnel -- The demon brother -- "Evidence" -- Three kinds of despair -- The fireworkers, part 2 -- In the dark.
Target Audience Note:
980L Lexile
Study Program Information Note:
Accelerated Reader UG 7.0 57 57 177755
Subject:
Nineteen seventies -- Fiction
Criminal investigation -- Fiction
Heirs -- Fiction
Dysfunctional families -- Fiction
Rich people -- New York (State) -- New York -- Fiction
Drug abuse -- Fiction
Betrayal -- Fiction
Punk culture -- New York (State) -- New York -- Fiction
Electric power failures -- New York (State) -- New York -- Fiction
New York (N.Y.) -- Fiction
Genre:
Romance fiction.
Detective and mystery fiction.

Available copies

  • 27 of 27 copies available at Westchester Library System.

Holds

  • 0 current holds with 27 total copies.

Other Formats and Editions

English (2)
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