City on Fire

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Extraordinary…dazzling… a sprawling, generous, warm-hearted epic of 1970s New York Staggering…gloriously ambitious A novel of head-snapping ambition and heart-stopping power – a novel that attests to its young author’s boundless and unflagging talents Exciting, imaginative and perfectly paced Dickensian, massively entertaining, as close to a great American novel as this century has produced You’re soon zipping through Hallberg’s vividly realised New York like a child discovering Hogwarts for the first time This book felt to me like a DVD boxset, in that each chapter was so short that I’d find myself reading just one more, just one more, and then find myself still reading an hour later. I love this book: this is definitely for me the best book we’ve done on the Book Club this year. Once I started Hallberg's addictive soap opera shuttling between uptown and downtown Manhattan, I couldn't stop ... This is The Goldfinch with a safety pin through its beak. A tour de force The kind of debut novel that only comes around once every 20 years or so – one that everyone who's read it roots for...[An] edge-of-your-seat epic, which is as tightly told as it is ambitious. Expand reviews