City on Fire by Garth Risk Hallberg (Book Analysis)
City on Fire by Garth Risk Hallberg (Book Analysis)
Detailed Summary, Analysis and Reading Guide
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This practical and insightful reading guide offers a complete summary and analysis of City on Fire by Garth Risk Hallberg. It provides a thorough exploration of the novel’s plot, characters and main themes, including family, corruption and the punk movement. The clear and concise style makes for easy understanding, providing the perfect opportunity to improve your literary knowledge in no time.
This clear and detailed 54-page reading guide is structured as follows:
- Biography of Garth Risk Hallberg
- Presentation of City on Fire
- Summary of City on Fire
- Character study
- The Hamilton-Sweeney Family
- Other characters
- Analysis of City on Fire
- Punk
- A novel about the city
- The ominpresence of brands and music
About City on Fire
City on Fire interweaves the stories of two very different groups of people: the inordinately wealthy Hamilton-Sweeney family, and a group of punks who reject society and its conventions and turn to petty crime to survive. However, in the violent, crime-ridden New York of the 1970s, it turns out that the two apparently very different clans are linked in surprising ways.
This bestselling book appeared in 2015 and became the most expensive first novel ever published: the American publisher Alfred A. Knopf bought the unfinished manuscript for $2 million, and sparking a fierce bidding war over the translation rights among foreign publishers.
About Garth Risk Hallberg
Garth Risk Hallberg is an American writer whose work has been published in The New York Times Magazine, among other outlets. He shot to international fame with his 2015 novel City on Fire, having previously published short fiction and essays. He currently lives in New York with his family and teaches at Sarah Lawrence College.
Product details
ISBN | 9782808004480 |
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Publisher | Plurilingua Publishing |
Collection | Brightsummaries.com |
Format | |
Pages | 54 |
File size | 2.2 MB |