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
NEW YORK. 1977. BE THERE WHEN IT EXPLODES. It’s New Year’s Eve, 1976, and New York is a city on the edge. As midnight approaches, a blizzard sets in – and amidst the fireworks, an unmistakable sound rings out across Central Park. Gunshots. Two of them.The search for the shooter will bring together a rich cast of New Yorkers. From the reluctant heirs to one of the city's greatest fortunes, to a couple of Long Island kids drawn to the punk scene downtown. From the newly arrived and enchanted, to those so sick of the city they want to burn it to the ground. All these lives are connected to one another – and to the life that still clings to that body in the park. Whether they know it or not, they are bound up in the same story – a story where history and revolution, love and art, crime and conspiracy are all packed into a single shell, ready to explode.Then, on July 13th, 1977, the lights go out in New York City.
