American Fire Love, Arson, and Life in a Vanishing Land
eAudio - 2017
Shocked by a five-month arson spree that left rural Virginia reeling, Washington Post reporter Monica Hesse drove down to Accomack County to cover the trial of Charlie Smith, who pled guilty to sixty-seven counts of arson. But Charlie wasn't lighting fires alone: he had an accomplice, his girlfriend Tonya Bundick. Through her depiction of the dangerous shift that happened in their passionate relationship, Hesse brilliantly brings to life the once-thriving coastal community and its distressed inhabitants, who had already been decimated by a punishing economy before they were terrified by a string of fires they could not explain. Incorporating this drama into the long-overlooked history of arson in the United States, American Fire re-cre...ates the anguished nights that this quiet county spent lit up in flames, mesmerizingly evoking a microcosm of rural America - a land half gutted before the fires even began.
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Dreamscape Media
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- English
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- MP3 audiobook, OverDrive Listen audiobook
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File Size | 215 GB |
Parts | 7 |
ISBN | 9781666584943 |
Release Date | 7/11/2017 |
OverDrive Listen audiobook | |
File Size | 215 GB |
ISBN | 9781666584943 |
Release Date | 7/11/2017 |