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City on the Edge by David (Author) Swinson is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.

What is City on the Edge about?

An American teen living abroad discovers the truth about himself and his family in this thrilling novel from'one of the best dialogue hounds in the business'(New York Times Book Review).1972, Beirut, Lebanon. Young American Matthew lives with his father, a rising foreign service attache, and mother, in an exclusive community of ex-patriots. It is the summer Matthew becomes a teenager, falls in love, nearly dies, and watches his family, and the city, fall apart.It is in this world of Western schemers and local merchants, of hoodlums and politicians, that Matthew begins to solve the mystery of who his father really is, and what role he is really playing in the upheaval that is shaking the city loose of its old, civilized and way and ushering in a new and frightening radicalism.This is the story of a boy and a family, besieged. Intimate in scope and wrenching in its vision of lost innocence, City on the Edge is a mystery and spy story from the past, and a coming of age story for our time.

Who reads City on the Edge?

Author

David (Author) Swinson

Publisher

New York: Mulholland Books, Little, Brown and Company

Published

2021

Language

EN

ISBN

9780316528559

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Fiction, Mystery, Literary Fiction

Rating

4.1 / 5 (54 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14