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Heat and Light - A Novel

Anglais · Livre Relié

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Zusatztext " Heat and Light achieves pure novelistic virtuosity. It's brilliant beginning to end." Informationen zum Autor Jennifer Haigh is the author of the short-story collection News from Heaven and six bestselling and critically acclaimed novels, including Mrs. Kimble, Faith and Heat and Light,  which was named a Best Book of 2016 by the New York Times, The Washington Post , the Wall Street Journal and NPR. Her books have won the PEN/Hemingway Award, the Massachusetts Book Award and the PEN New England Award in Fiction, and have been translated widely. She lives in New England. Klappentext Forty years ago, Bakerton coal fueled the country. Then the mines closed, and the town wore away like a bar of soap. Now Bakerton has been granted a surprise third act: it sits squarely atop the Marcellus Shale, a massive deposit of natural gas. To drill or not to drill? Prison guard Rich Devlin leases his mineral rights to finance his dream of farming. Meanwhile his neighbors, organic dairy farmers Mack and Rena, hold out against the drilling—until a passionate environmental activist disrupts their lives. Told through a cast of characters whose lives are increasingly bound by the opposing interests that underpin the national debate, Heat and Light is a dispatch from a forgotten America—a work of searing moral clarity from one of the finest writers of her generation, a courageous and necessary book. Zusammenfassung A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: New York Times! The Washington Post! The Wall Street Journal ! NPR Acclaimed New York Times bestselling author Jennifer Haigh returns to the Pennsylvania town at the center of her iconic novel Baker Towers in this ambitious! achingly human story of modern America and the conflicting forces at its heart—a bold! moving drama of hope and desperation! greed and power! big business and small-town families. Forty years ago! Bakerton coal fueled the country. Then the mines closed! and the town wore away like a bar of soap. Now Bakerton has been granted a surprise third act: it sits squarely atop the Marcellus Shale! a massive deposit of natural gas. To drill or not to drill? Prison guard Rich Devlin leases his mineral rights to finance his dream of farming. He doesn’t count on the truck traffic and nonstop noise! his brother’s skepticism or the paranoia of his wife! Shelby! who insists the water smells strange and is poisoning their frail daughter. Meanwhile his neighbors! organic dairy farmers Mack and Rena! hold out against the drilling—until a passionate environmental activist disrupts their lives. Told through a cast of characters whose lives are increasingly bound by the opposing interests that underpin the national debate! Heat and Light depicts a community blessed and cursed by its natural resources. Soaring and ambitious! it zooms from drill rig to shareholders’ meeting to the Three Mile Island nuclear reactor to the ruined landscape of the “strippins!” haunting reminders of Pennsylvania’s past energy booms. This is a dispatch from a forgotten America—a work of searing moral clarity from one of the finest writers of her generation! a courageous and necessary book. ...

Détails du produit

Auteurs Jennifer Haigh
Edition Ecco Press
 
Langues Anglais
Format d'édition Livre Relié
Sortie 03.05.2016
 
EAN 9780061763298
ISBN 978-0-06-176329-8
Pages 448
Dimensions 152 mm x 229 mm x 35 mm
Catégories Littérature > Suspense > Policiers, espionnage

WOMEN'S LITERATURE: LITERATURE/FICTION, FICTION: Literary, FICTION: Women, FICTION: Romance / Historical / American, FICTION: Small Town & Rural *, ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES: LITERATURE, FICTION: Political, FICTION: World Literature / Central America, FICTION: World Literature / American / General

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