Boomtown
by Greg Williams

After the Y2K panic had subsided and the streets of Times Square were cleared, America woke up to a new century shocked to find itself more or less the same as it was before. The stock market bubble, fed with steady gusts of hot air from technology companies, was expanding precariously, awaiting the tiniest pin-prick to implode. Following the lives of a group of sharply-drawn characters in this uncannily hip and savagely satirical new novel from the acclaimed Sewanee Writers' Series, Greg Williams takes us to the heart of the post-millennial psyche, and into the minds and souls of the dreamers who make the twenty-six square miles of Manhattan the biggest place on earth.

A Bright Lights, Big City for the dot.com age, Boomtown exposes the hubris, vanity, and deceit that fueled the staggering climb and precipitous fall of that era's ambition.

"Boomtown is a funny, smart novel about the blithe over-reaching of dot.com players in New York City. It's about New York attitude—everyone in the cast but the sweet struggling actress has one, and they all get what's coming to them. Williams has fine-tuned the plot so it purrs at top r.p.m."
— John Casey, winner of the National Book Award for Spartina

"In his lively and compelling novel, Greg Williams paints an achingly accurate portrait of the turn-of-the-century New York and its dot.com boom. A tale of excess, hubris, irresponsibility and their consequences, Boomtown is also highly amusing, and as engrossing as a thriller."
— Claire Messud, author of When the World Was Steady

"Set in the beginning of the new century, Boomtown takes on some of the many myths of Manhattan, particularly the dot.com bubble, and bursts or burnishes them with glee. Greg Williams writes with considerable wit and élan, and this vividly peopled, cleverly plotted, fast-moving novel is a pleasure from beginning to end."
— Margot Livesey, author of Homework and The Missing World