Diana Hendry

Is City on Fire just a box set masquerading as a novel?

Garth Risk Hallberg’s epic of Seventies New York is certainly ‘cinematic’ — but it’s also wise and witty

issue 17 October 2015
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    Garth Risk Hallberg

    Cape, pp. 927

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