City on Fire
Roman Die Romanvorlage zur Serie »Fire in the Sky«
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- 12,99 €
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- 12,99 €
Descrição da editora
"City on Fire", der große, überwältigende Roman über New York City von Garth Risk Hallberg
Neujahr 1977. Ein Schneesturm zieht über New York, Feuerwerk erleuchtet den Himmel und im Central Park fallen Schüsse. Die Ereignisse der Nacht bringen eine Gruppe unvergesslicher Menschen zusammen: die schwerreichen Erben William und Regan, zwei Punk-Kids, einen besessenen Magazin-Reporter und einen Cop. Sie alle leben und lieben hier, in der großen Stadt, die bankrott und gefährlich ist und zugleich vor Energie platzt. Als dann am 13. Juli 1977 die Lichter ausgehen, gerät die Stadt in den Ausnahmezustand – und nach dem Stromausfall ist kein Leben wie zuvor. "City on Fire" ist ein großer Roman über Liebe, Betrug und Vergebung, über Kunst, Wahrheit, Punk und Rock'n'Roll – kraftvoll, überbordend, außergewöhnlich.
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Hallberg's maniacally detailed, exhaustingly clever depiction of 1970s New York is packed with urban angst, intellectual energy, and sinister pitfalls, much like the city it evokes. This epic of drugs, sex, and rock and roll combines fiction and new journalistic accounts of real events, with a character's typed manuscript drafts (spill marks included), hand-written diaries, notebooks, photographs, cartoons, drawings, homework, and personal correspondence. A cast of characters drawn from all social strata features William Hamilton-Sweeney, artist and sometime heroin addict, once heir to a fortune, once lead guitarist for the post-humanist rock band Ex Post Facto; and Sam Cicciaro, the girl everyone finds irresistible, discovered half-dead in Central Park by William's lover, Mercer. The search to identify Sam's attacker is one of several story lines tying the ambitious work together; another is Mercer's attempt, propelled by William's sister, Regan, to bring William back into the family fold as their father's business collapses and troubles in the family mount. Charlie, an alienated teenager who becomes a rock band groupie, falls for Sam. Meanwhile Richard Kosgroth, veteran journalist and Capote wannabe, interviews Sam's father, New York's fireworks king. Seventies survivors will not be surprised when city residents come together during the '77 blackout. Readers wishing to wallow in cultural trivia will find much to savor in Hallberg's all-encompassing, occasionally overwritten effort, but others will be left to wonder how so much energy could generate so little light.
