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Garth Risk Hallberg's stories and essays have appeared in the New York Times Magazine, New York Times Book Review, New York magazine, Slate, Los Angeles Times, and Best New American Voices 2008. His illustrated novella, A Field Guide to the North American Family, was nominated for the Believer Book Award. He is 35 years old, and lives in Brooklyn with his wife and children.
Extraordinary...dazzling... a sprawling, generous, warm-hearted epic of 1970s New York Observer Staggering...gloriously ambitious Independent on Sunday A novel of head-snapping ambition and heart-stopping power - a novel that attests to its young author's boundless and unflagging talents New York Times Exciting, imaginative and perfectly paced Daily Telegraph Dickensian, massively entertaining, as close to a great American novel as this century has produced -- Stephen King You're soon zipping through Hallberg's vividly realised New York like a child discovering Hogwarts for the first time The Times This book felt to me like a DVD boxset, in that each chapter was so short that I'd find myself reading just one more, just one more, and then find myself still reading an hour later. I love this book: this is definitely for me the best book we've done on the Book Club this year. Simon Mayo Radio 2 Book Club Once I started Hallberg's addictive soap opera shuttling between uptown and downtown Manhattan, I couldn't stop ... This is The Goldfinch with a safety pin through its beak. -- James Kidd Independent A tour de force Daily Mail
