Description: American Fire: Love, Arson, and Life in a Vanishing Land by Monica Hesse HC/DJ 1st Edition. Like New. About the book: 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.
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All returns accepted: Returns Accepted
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Features: Dust Jacket
Format: Hardcover
IsTextBook: No
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Item Width: 0.6in.
Number of Pages: 255
Item Length: 1in.
Item Height: 0.1in.
Topic: Sociology / General, General, Criminology, True Crime
Product Group: Book
Vintage: No
Era: 2010s
Country/Region of Manufacture: America
Binding: Hardcover
Ex Libris: No
Edition: First Edition
Language: English
Publication Year: 2017
Item Weight: 18 oz
Book Title: American Fire : Love, Arson, and Life in a Vanishing Land
Intended Audience: Adults
Author: Monica Hesse
Original Language: English
Narrative Type: Fiction
Publisher: Liveright Publishing Corporation
Inscribed: No
Signed: No
Genre: True Crime, Biography & Autobiography, Social Science
Personalized: No
Type: Novel
