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Hallberg, Garth Risk

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ISBN 10: 0099597470 ISBN 13: 9780099597476

Casa editrice: Random UK, 2016

Riassunto

The New York Times bestseller
A Granta Best of Young American Novelists 2017

'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

Su questo libro

Recensione:

"Extraordinary...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)

Descrizione del libro:

Among the most eagerly anticipated and addictive novels of recent years

Su questa edizione

• Editore: Random UK
• Data di pubblicazione: 2016
• ISBN 10: 0099597470
• ISBN 13: 9780099597476
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero edizione: 1
• Numero di pagine: 944