'Dickensian, massively entertaining, as close to a great American novel as this century has produced' - Stephen King
Garth Risk Hallberg's first novel, City on Fire, was an international bestseller and was named one of the best books of the year by the Daily Telegraph, the Guardian, the Washington Post, the Independent, and Vogue, among others. His illustrated novella, A Field Guide to the North American Family was nominated for a Believer Book Award and his short fiction and essays have been published in the Guardian, and the New York Times Book Review. He is a Granta Best Young American Novelist. He lives in Brooklyn with his wife and children and is at work on a new novel.
Extraordinary…dazzling… a sprawling, generous, warm-hearted epic of
1970s New York
*Observer*
Staggering…gloriously ambitious
*Independent on Sunday*
A novel of head-snapping ambition and heart-stopping power – a
novel that attests to its young author’s boundless and unflagging
talents
*New York Times*
Exciting, imaginative and perfectly paced
*Daily Telegraph*
Dickensian, massively entertaining, as close to a great American
novel as this century has produced
*Stephen King*
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