· by Matt Gallagher ‧ RELEASE DATE: Ap. A trio of government-engineered superheroes navigate a war-torn, divided nation: the United States of America. Gallagher debuted with a savagely funny memoir (Kaboom, , etc.) and followed it up with a novel, Youngblood (). Here, he pivots to an alternate version of America that’s just recognizable but radically different due to a few . "Part political thriller, part satire, part fevered reflection of a deeply troubled American culture, Matt Gallagher's Empire City is a brilliant and daring novel. Gallagher's prose is sharp, energetic and witty, his characters are fiercely alive, and the cracked vision Released on: Janu. Empire City - Matt Gallagher. CHAPTER 1. DEFY. Sleepy and half-drunk, Sebastian Rios tried to reason with the message carved into the wall of the subway tunnel. He’d spent the evening with friends and coworkers, celebrating the republic’s birthday, and was attempting to get home. There’d been many toasts and his mouth tasted of rye.
Former U.S. Army captain Matt Gallagher is the author of the novel Youngblood, published in February by Atria and a finalist for the Dayton Literary Peace Prize. He's also the author of the Iraq memoir Kaboom and coeditor of, and contributor to, the short fiction collection Fire Forget: Short Stories from the Long War. "Empire City is a dark, nimble book that pulls no punches. While the novel tracks an alternate historical reality, time and again I found myself taken aback at just how prescient and applicable its insight is to our very real present. Gallagher once again establishes himself as a preeminent voice in American writing.". Featuring Gallagher's "vital" (The Washington Post), "evocative" (The Wall Street Journal) prose, Empire City is a rousing vision of an alternate—yet all too familiar—America on the brink. Matt Gallagher takes up the task of writing about the aftermath of war - the feelings and actions of those veterans that have fought in the.
Empire City. Matt Gallagher. Atria, $27 (p) ISBN Gallagher’s ambitious but flawed second novel (after Youngblood) imagines a world in which the U.S. won the war in Vietnam. Empire City by Matt Gallagher English | | Science Fiction | eBook | MB The author of the “urgent and deeply moving” returns with this bold and provocative novel following a group of super-powered soldiers and civilians as they navigate an imperial America on the precipice of a major upheaval-for fans of The Fortress of Solitude and The Plot Against America. The novel Empire City by alumnus Matt Gallagher ’13 is available for pre-order at Bookshop, an online bookstore that supports local, independent bookstores. Pre-orders begin shipping on April Empire City takes place thirty years after the United States’ “great triumph” in Vietnam. The summary on the website reads, “The United States has again become mired in an endless foreign war overseas.
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