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Garth Risk Hallberg

Biography

Garth Risk Hallberg

Garth Risk Hallberg's first novel, CITY ON FIRE, was a New York Times and international bestseller and was selected as one of the best books of 2015 by The Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, San Francisco Chronicle, The Wall Street Journal, NPR and Vogue. It was the basis for the Apple TV+ series of the same name. He is also the author of the novel THE SECOND COMING and the novella A FIELD GUIDE TO THE NORTH AMERICAN FAMILY. In 2017, Granta named him one of the Best of Young American Novelists. His work has been translated into 17 languages.

Garth Risk Hallberg

Books by Garth Risk Hallberg

by Garth Risk Hallberg - Fiction

When 13-year-old Jolie Aspern drops her phone onto the subway tracks in 2011, her estranged dad, Ethan, seems like the furthest thing from her mind. A convicted felon and recovering addict, Ethan has long struggled to see beyond himself. But then a call from New York makes him fear that his daughter is in deeper trouble than anyone realizes. And believing he’s the only one who can save her, he decides to return home. So begins the journey that, in time, will push Jolie and Ethan --- child and adult, apart and together, different yet the same --- out past their depths.

by Garth Risk Hallberg - Fiction, Historical Fiction

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 Samantha, two suburban teenagers seduced by downtown’s punk scene; an obsessive magazine reporter and his idealistic neighbor --- 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. When the blackout of July 13, 1977, plunges this world into darkness, each of these lives will be changed forever.