American Fire
Love, Arson, and Life in a Vanishing Land
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- Release Date: 07/11/2017
- Publisher: W. W. Norton & Co.
- Classification: Nonfiction
- Classification: Nonfiction
- Series: N/A
- Language: English
- Format: Unabridged edition
- Genre: Documentary, Mystery & Crime
- Author: Monica Hesse
- Read by: Tanya Eby
- Duration: 448 minutes
- Run Time: 448 minutes
- Language: English
- Language: English
- Audio Library Digital - 9781520075860
- Audio Retail Digital - 9781520075877
- 6 Audio CD(s) - 9781520075846
- 1 Audio MP3 CD(s) - 9781520075884
- Playaway - 9781520075891
American Fire
American Fire
Love, Arson, and Life in a Vanishing Land
Love, Arson, and Life in a Vanishing Land
- By Monica Hesse
- Genre: Documentary, Mystery & Crime
Audio Library Digital
07/11/2017
448 minutes
9781520075860
Audio Retail Digital
07/11/2017
448 minutes
9781520075877
Audio CD
07/11/2017
6 Audio CD
448 minutes
9781520075846
Audio MP3 CD
07/11/2017
1 Audio MP3 CD
448 minutes
9781520075884
Playaway
07/11/2017
448 minutes
9781520075891
Description:
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-creates 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.Quotes:
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A captivating story about arson, persistent law enforcers, an unlikely romantic relationship, and a courtroom drama..., Kirkus
A captivating story about arson, persistent law enforcers, an unlikely romantic relationship, and a courtroom drama..., Kirkus
...A page-turning story of love gone off the rails., Publishers Weekly
...A page-turning story of love gone off the rails., Publishers Weekly
Hesse enters the compelling narrative with restraint in probing, essayistic analyses. She tells the story of the fires and of the Eastern Shore and the people she got to know there with an earned familiarity that, at the same time, speaks of the unknowability of a vast, rapidly changing nation., Booklist
Hesse enters the compelling narrative with restraint in probing, essayistic analyses. She tells the story of the fires and of the Eastern Shore and the people she got to know there with an earned familiarity that, at the same time, speaks of the unknowability of a vast, rapidly changing nation., Booklist
Hesse, who covered the arsons for The Washington Post, is an ace reporter, but she's an even better storyteller. American Fire is as propulsive as a crime thriller. A-, Entertainment Weekly
Hesse, who covered the arsons for The Washington Post, is an ace reporter, but she's an even better storyteller. American Fire is as propulsive as a crime thriller. A-, Entertainment Weekly
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