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The Resource American fire : love, arson, and life in a vanishing land, Monica Hesse

American fire : love, arson, and life in a vanishing land, Monica Hesse

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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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eng
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Unabridged.
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1 online resource (1 sound file (7 hr., 31 min., 43 sec.))
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9781520075860
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http://link.overdrive.com/?websiteID=257&titleID=3341126
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American fire : love, arson, and life in a vanishing land
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American fire
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love, arson, and life in a vanishing land
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Monica Hesse
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eng
Summary
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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364.16/42
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Read by Tanya Eby
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American fire : love, arson, and life in a vanishing land, Monica Hesse
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http://link.overdrive.com/?websiteID=257&titleID=3341126
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Unabridged.
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1 online resource (1 sound file (7 hr., 31 min., 43 sec.))
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9781520075860
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(OCoLC)993624668
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Label
American fire : love, arson, and life in a vanishing land, Monica Hesse
Link
http://link.overdrive.com/?websiteID=257&titleID=3341126
Publication
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unknown
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unknown
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online resource
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cr
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rdacarrier.
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unknown
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spoken word
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spw
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rdacontent.
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ocn993624668
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  • not applicable
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Edition
Unabridged.
Extent
1 online resource (1 sound file (7 hr., 31 min., 43 sec.))
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unknown
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online
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not applicable
Isbn
9781520075860
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not applicable
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not applicable
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unknown
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unknown
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computer
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rdamedia.
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c
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digital.
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not applicable
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unknown
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sound
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digital recording
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  • other
  • remote
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other
Stock number
B10A4B1E-F2F0-4146-8C0B-C7212A428CF1
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(OCoLC)993624668
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