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The City Dwellers by Charles Platt

sexton_blake's review

4.0

Through four vignettes, a decaying city emerges as the primary character, resulting in a haunting, strangely evocative novel. There’s no plot here. No beginning, middle and end. Rather, it’s an impressionistic snapshot, and after you’ve put it down, though you’ll forget the protagonists and the incidents, the atmosphere will stick with you for a long time. It’s dated—saturated with the zeitgeist of the ‘seventies—but remains a pretty extraordinary example of the period’s “New Wave.”