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''Extraordinary...dazzling... a sprawling, generous, warm-hearted epic of 1970s New York'' Observer
Midnight, New Year''s Eve, 1976. Nine lives are about to be changed forever.
Regan and William Hamilton-Sweeney, heirs to one of New York''s greatest fortunes; Keith and Mercer, the men who, for better or worse, love them; Charlie and Samantha, two suburban teenagers seduced by the punk scene; an obsessive magazine reporter and his idealistic neighbour - and the detective trying to figure out what any of them have to do with a shooting in Central Park on New Year''s Eve.
Then, on July 13th, 1977, the lights go out.
''Dazzling'' Washington Post
''Heart-stopping'' New York Times
''Addictive'' Independent
''Extraordinary'' Observer
Trade ReviewExtraordinary…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
You’re soon zipping through Hallberg’s vividly realised New York like a child discovering Hogwarts for the first time * The Times *
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. * Simon Mayo Radio 2 Book Club *
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. -- James Kidd * Independent *
A tour de force * Daily Mail *
