City on Fire
Garth Risk Hallberg
Literary Fiction / Historical Fiction
City on Fire
by Garth Risk Hallberg
—· 1109 p
NYT BestsellerMajor TV Adaptationmysteriousreflectivedark
Overview
About
NATIONAL BESTSELLER • A mystery that reverberates through families, friendships, and the corridors of power in New York and "captures the city’s dangerous, magnetic allure" (The New York Times). • Streaming now on Apple TV+ “As close to a great American novel as this century has produced.” —Stephen King New York City, 1976. Meet Regan and William Hamilton-Sweeney, estranged heirs to one of the city’s great fortunes; Keith and Mercer, the men who, for better or worse, love them; Charlie and Saman…
Pages
1,109
Vintage
Linguistic complexity
4/5
Complex
Thematic complexity
4/5
Rich
Rating
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Reader feel
Urban Atmosphere10
Prose9
Ensemble Characterization9
Worldbuilding8
Emotional depth8
Narration8
Plot twists7
Pacing6
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