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- Sprache: Englisch
- Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2017
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City on Fire by Garth Risk Hallberg, one of the most talked-about books of the 2015 literary season and the most expensive first novel ever published. This sprawling book follows an extensive cast of characters, from wealthy real estate magnates to destitute musicians, living in New York in the 1960s and 1970s. Set against the backdrop of major social upheaval and the burgeoning punk movement, the novel provides a compelling illustration of the city’s power and its influence on its inhabitants’ actions. Garth Risk Hallberg is an American writer known for his novels, short stories and essays. He currently lives in New York and teaches at Sarah Lawrence College.
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Garth Risk Hallberg
American author
Born near Baton Rouge, Louisiana in 1978.Notable works:A Field Guide to the North American Family (2007), novellaThat High, Lonesome Sound (2012), short storyHow Fiction Can ‘Make It New’ (2015), essayGarth Risk Hallberg was born in a small town near Baton Rouge in December 1978. He grew up in North Carolina, before studying English at Washington University in St. Louis (Missouri) and gaining his MFA from NYU. He has lived in Brooklyn, New York with his wife and their two children since 2004. He is a professor at Sarah Lawrence College in New York State, where he teaches the art of novel-writing in a programme focusing on professional novel-writing and narratology.
Hallberg began his literary career with award-winning short stories, which have appeared in prestigious publications such as The New York Times Magazine and Book Review.
City on Fire
A novel about sprawling New York
Genre: novelReference edition: Hallberg, G. R. (2016) City on Fire. London: Vintage.1st edition: 2015Themes: New York, punk, drugs, family, crisis, art, destruction, corruptionCity on Fire, which was published in 2015, caused significant buzz before it even went on sale. The American publisher Alfred A. Knopf was impressed by the young author’s originality and bought the still-unfinished manuscript for $2 million. This was followed by a bidding war between different publishers for the foreign rights, making City on Fire the most expensive first novel ever published, and plans for a film adaptation were soon made.
When the novel was published, it soon became a bestseller. It is set in New York, where the avenues, boulevards and neighbourhoods stretch across the city like a spider’s web, ensnaring everyone, no matter how rich or poor they are. The story immerses the reader in the punk movement of the late 1960s and 1970s with a mixture of drugs, small-time hoodlums and powerful businesspeople thrown together in a booming city, and culminates with the 1977 blackout.
Summary
Apocalypse
On the night of 13 to 14 July 1977, New York is hit by an unprecedented blackout which cuts off all the city’s electricity (and therefore all its communication lines), allowing looters, rioters and other criminals to run wild. With the entire city on edge, two clans clash: the inordinately wealthy Hamilton-Sweeney family, who wield significant power in New York thanks to a series of increasingly shady negotiations and property investments, and a small far-left punk group known as the Post-Humanist Phalanx, or PHP.
