Книга: Garth Risk Hallberg «City on Fire»
A big-hearted, boundary-vaulting novel that heralds a remarkable new talent: set in 1970s New York, it is a story outsized in its generosity, warmth, and ambition, its deep feeling for its characters, and its exuberant imagination. The individuals who live within this extraordinary first novel are: Regan and William Hamilton-Sweeney, estranged heirs to one of the city's largest fortunes; Keith and Mercer, the men who, for better or worse, love them; Charlie and Samantha, two suburban teenagers seduced by downtown's punk scene; an obsessive magazine reporter; his idealistic neighbor; and the detective trying to figure out what any of them have to do with a shooting in Central Park. Their entangled relationships - which stretch from post-Vietnam youth culture to the fiscal crisis, from small-town Georgia to greater L. A. - open up the loneliest-seeming corners of the crowded city. And when the infamous blackout of July 13th, 1977 plunges this world into darkness, each of these lives... Издательство: "Alfred A. Knopf" (2015) Формат: 155x230, 944 стр.
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City on Fire | Its New Years Eve, 1976, and New York is a city on the edge. As midnight approaches, a blizzard sets in - and amidst the fireworks, an unmistakable sound rings out across Central Park. Gunshots. Two… — Jonathan Cape, Penguin Random House, (формат: 155x235, 944 стр.) Подробнее... | бумажная книга |
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