Bøker av Garth Risk Hallberg

A luminous new novel from the best-selling author of City on Fire, plunging us deep into the lives of a teenage girl and her father as they navigate love, grief, addiction, resurrection, and the restless pull of other people.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 always struggled to see past himself. But then a call from his ex makes him fear their daughter's in deeper trouble than anyone realizes. Believing he's the only one who can save her, he decides to return to New York with a gift: the whole of his life, its hard-won triumphs and harrowing mistakes . . .So begins the intimate epic of Jolie and Ethan: child and adult, apart and together, different yet the same. Their journey toward each other will face opposition from grandparents and siblings and friends. It will strain connections with roommates and benefactors and a probation officer desperate to help. It will push Jolie out past her depth with a mysterious admirer, and Ethan in over his head with his first love, Jolie's mom. But as father and daughter struggle to find their footing, new vistas beckon: from a surf break in mid-'90s Delaware to group therapy during the great recession, from an encampment at Occupy Wall Street to a HoJo on Maryland's Eastern Shore, from the heights of the Brooklyn Bridge to horizons seldom seen in fiction.The Second Coming is at once an incandescent feat of storytelling and an exploration of an enduring mystery: Can we ever really outrun the past, stay true to ourselves while still chasing something new? Full of music and pathos and passion—full of blues—this beautifully attuned work of fiction renews the extraordinary promise of this writer's “boundless and unflagging talents” (Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times).

En Tom Wolfe for vår tid. Den ultimate New York-romanen -- oppsiktsvekkende debut.New York City, 1976. Hils på Regan og William Hamilton-Sweeney, arvingene til en av byens største formuer og Keith og Mercer, mennene som elsker dem. Møt Charlie og Samantha, forstadsungdommene som lar seg forføre av byens pønkere og ikke minst, en besatt bladfyk og hans idealistiske nabo. Og så detektiven som forsøker å finne ut hva disse folka har å gjøre med en skyteepisode i Central Park på nyttårsaften.Mysteriet skal trenge inn i de mest ensomme av storbyens kriker og kroker og skal gjalle gjennom familie, vennskap og maktens korridorer. Og idet strømbruddet 'the New York blackout' kaster byen inn i mørket den 13. juli 1977 ville hver av disse karakterene få livet forandet for bestandig. 'En by i brann' er en uforglemmelig roman om kjærlighet, svik og tilgivelse, om kunst og sannhet og rock'n roll. Om hva man mennesker trenger fra hverandre for å leve ... ja, om hva som gir livet mening overhodet.Vanity Fair'En debut som gir gjenlyd ... på veien viker Hallbergs læreboksaktige fortelling om klasseforskjeller, rase, geografi og generasjoner for en imponerende ambisiøs og opphøyet fremstilling av menneskenes lodd.'Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times ... 'det er en roman med nakkesleng-ambisjon og hjertestans-kraft - en roman som vitner om den unge forfatterens uendelige og urokkelige talent.'

National Best Seller *;Named a Best Book of the Year by: New York Times, Washington Post, San Francisco Chronicle, NPR, Vogue, The Atlantic, Newsday';A novel of head-snapping ambition and heart-stopping powera novel that attests to its young author's boundless and unflagging talents.'Michiko Kakutani,New York TimesNew 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 neighborand the detective trying to figure out what any of them have to do with a shooting in Central Park on New Year's Eve. The mystery, as it reverberates through families, friendships, and the corridors of power, will open up even the loneliest-seeming corners of the crowded city. And when the blackout of July 13, 1977, plunges this world into darkness, each of these lives will be changed forever. City on Fire is an unforgettable novel about love and betrayal and forgiveness, about art and truth and rock 'n' roll: about what people need from each other in order to live . . . and about what makes the living worth doing in the first place.

From the author of the New York Times bestseller City on FireA Granta Best of Young American Novelist 2017 'A young author of boundless and unflagging talents' New York TimesWe can all agree on this much, Marnie thought: nobody saw the Hungate divorce coming.

The New York Times bestsellerA 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.