A luminous novel from the New York Times bestselling author of City on Fire, plunging us deep into the lives of a teenage girl and her father as they navigate love, grief, addiction, redemption and connection.
Garth Risk Hallberg Book order
December 1, 1978
Garth Risk Hallberg is a writer whose stories and essays have been featured in numerous prestigious literary journals and magazines. His work delves deeply into the complexities of human experience and contemporary society. As a contributing editor and an award-recognized reviewer, he engages with literature critically and also nurtures new writers through teaching. Hallberg's writing offers a profound and insightful exploration of modern life and its intricate connections.
- 2024
- 2017
A Field Guide to the North American Family
- 144 pages
- 6 hours of reading
They came to Long Island for the relative quiet, the soothing bugsong in summer, in winter the cold crash of waves.They came for the community, the neighbourhood, the schools. All it cost was a thirty-year mortgage, club dues and greens fees, and train-fare to the city five days a week. And if, after the switch to standard time, they got home well after dark ; and if gradually the kids became strangers, and if when the lights were out they only fell asleep exhausted ... well, was that so different from what their own parents had done, chasing their own dreams of America ?
- 2015
City on Fire
- 944 pages
- 34 hours of reading
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.
