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American Fire: Love, Arson, and Life in a Vanishing Land
Monica Hesse
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Description for American Fire: Love, Arson, and Life in a Vanishing Land
Hardback. Combining the reportage of In Cold Blood with the eye-opening insights of Dreamland, American Fire becomes a new American tragedy of our time. Num Pages: 304 pages, 8 pages of illustrations. BIC Classification: JHB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 155. .
The arsons started on a cold November midnight and didn't stop for months. Night after night, the people of Accomack County waited to see which building would burn down next, regarding each other at first with compassion, and later suspicion. Vigilante groups sprang up, patrolling the rural Virginia coast with cameras and camouflage. Volunteer firefighters slept at their stations. The arsonist seemed to target abandoned buildings, but local police were stretched too thin to surveil them all. Accomack was desolate-there were hundreds of abandoned buildings. And by the dozen they were burning. The culprit, and the path that led to ... Read more
The arsons started on a cold November midnight and didn't stop for months. Night after night, the people of Accomack County waited to see which building would burn down next, regarding each other at first with compassion, and later suspicion. Vigilante groups sprang up, patrolling the rural Virginia coast with cameras and camouflage. Volunteer firefighters slept at their stations. The arsonist seemed to target abandoned buildings, but local police were stretched too thin to surveil them all. Accomack was desolate-there were hundreds of abandoned buildings. And by the dozen they were burning. The culprit, and the path that led to ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
WW Norton & Co
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
Weight
28g
Number of Pages
288
Place of Publication
, United States
ISBN
9781631490514
SKU
V9781631490514
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About Monica Hesse
Monica Hesse is a feature writer for the Washington Post. 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.
Reviews for American Fire: Love, Arson, and Life in a Vanishing Land
American Fire is a wonderful book of page-turning, true-crime reportage, exquisitely reported with both humanity and humor. Books like this remind us, in an uncertain time, of what journalism is supposed to look like.
Nick Reding, author of Methland America in decline, a love gone berserk, and fire...lots and lots of it. If you pick up this ... Read more
Nick Reding, author of Methland America in decline, a love gone berserk, and fire...lots and lots of it. If you pick up this ... Read more