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Author:

Hallberg, Garth Risk. author. (local)337092

Title:

City on fire / Garth Risk Hallberg.

Edition:

First Vintage Books edition.

Publisher:

Vintage Booksa division of Penguin Random House, LLC,

Copyright Date:

©2015

Description:

903 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm

Subject:

Criminal investigation--Fiction.
Dysfunctional families--Fiction.
Drug abuse--Fiction.
New York (State)--New York.
Detective and mystery fiction.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

Contents:

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.

Summary:

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.

ISBN:

0804172951
9780804172950 (pbk.) :

Locations:

UNUX074 -- University of Northern Iowa - Rod Library (Cedar Falls)

NYPE343 -- Charles City Public Library (Charles City)

AXPF626 -- Oskaloosa Public Library (Oskaloosa)