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American Fire

Love, Arson, and Life in a Vanishing Land

(Autor)

Buch | Softcover
272 Seiten
2018
Liveright Publishing Corporation (Verlag)
978-1-63149-451-2 (ISBN)
CHF 22,20 inkl. MwSt
Combining the reportage of In Cold Blood with the eye-opening insights of Dreamland, American Fire is a new American tragedy for our time.
Shocked by a five-month arson spree that left a Virginia county reeling, reporter Monica Hesse drove to Accomack to cover the trial of Charlie Smith who pled guilty to 67 counts of arson. But Smith wasn’t lighting fires alone: his crimes were galvanised by a twisted love story. Hesse uncovered the motives of this troubled addict and his accomplice, Tonya Bundick. In depicting the dangerous shift in their passionate relationship, Hesse brings to life the once-thriving coastal community and its distressed inhabitants, decimated by a punishing economy and increasingly terrified by a string of fires they could not explain. Incorporating this drama into the history of arson in the US, American Fire re-creates the anguished nights of this quiet county lit up in flames, evoking a microcosm of rural America—a land gutted before the fires began.

Monica Hesse is a feature writer for the Washington Post.  Winner of the Edgar Award and a finalist for a Livingston and James Beard Award, she is also the author of Girl in the Blue Coat. She lives in Washington, DC.

Erscheinungsdatum
Zusatzinfo 8 pages of illustrations
Sprache englisch
Maße 140 x 211 mm
Gewicht 211 g
Themenwelt Literatur Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte
Sachbuch/Ratgeber Geschichte / Politik Allgemeines / Lexika
Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie
ISBN-10 1-63149-451-1 / 1631494511
ISBN-13 978-1-63149-451-2 / 9781631494512
Zustand Neuware
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