City On Fire - Garth Risk Hallberg
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Paperback edition of the epic novel set in New York in the 1970s, which takes in punk rock, murder, city workers and more. Culminates in the New York blackout of July 1977. Film rights were sold before the book had even found a publisher, and it includes unique design components, such as letters and a fanzine. 'The kind of debut novel that only comes around once every 20 years or so' }Elle
Regan and William Hamilton-Sweeney, heirs to a great fortune; Keith and Mercer, the men who, for better or worse, love them; Charlie and Samantha, two suburban teenagers seduced by the punk scene; an obsessive magazine reporter and his idealistic neighbour - and the detective trying to figure out what any of them have to do with a shooting in Central Park on New Year's Eve.
Then, on July 13th, 1977, the lights go out in New York City.