City on Fire

Resumen del libro

Its 1976 and New York is a seething, wounded mass, a city of private wealth and public squalor, a place where opposites clash and explosive new energies are released. And where - during a New Years Eve blizzard - a girl is shot in Central Park. A web of personal histories has led to the pulling of the trigger. The reluctant heirs to one of the citys biggest fortunes; a gay schoolteacher; a suburban kid seduced by the call of the nascent downtown punk scene; a depressive magazine reporter; a Machiavellian step-uncle; a small organization lurking behind the locked steel door of a derelict townhouse - they are all involved. Their entangled relationships stretch deep into the past and forward to the present day, from the early sixties to post-9/11 and beyond, from the small-town Deep South to remote Scottish Islands. And when the infamous blackout of July 1977 plunges their city into darkness, each of them will be changed forever. City on Fire is a novel of monstrous crimes and romance, rock and roll and pyrotechnics, truth and betrayal, and, lying behind it all, one persons desire to touch another. Among the most eagerly anticipated books of recent years, it is a joyous, addictive, unforgettable experience.