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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- Summary
- Documents the trial of a man charged with dozens of counts of arson in a rural Virginia county, sharing insight into his struggles with addiction, his relationship with his accomplice girlfriend, and the impact of the fires on their community
- Language
- eng
- Edition
- First edition.
- Extent
- 255 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates
- Contents
-
- "Charge that line!"
- "The South starts here"
- "Orange in the sky"
- Charlie
- Monomanie incendiaire
- Tonya
- "Like a ghost"
- "Tell us what you know about that"
- Charlie and Tonya
- Schrödinger's evidence
- The eastern shore arsonist hunters
- "I've seen enough ass to know"
- "Like hell was coming up through the ground"
- Tonya and Charlie
- "They're not hunters at all"
- "I didn't light them all"
- "Someday they'll go down together"
- "Everybody has a reason for why they do things in life"
- "I can't tell you something I don't know"
- "Midnight without makeup"
- The broken things
- "Time to wake up"
- Burned
- "We'd done it before"
- "They came out of everywhere"
- "Moral turpitude"
- What happened next
- "It's over"
- Isbn
- 9781631490514
- Label
- American fire : love, arson, and life in a vanishing land
- Title
- American fire
- Title remainder
- love, arson, and life in a vanishing land
- Statement of responsibility
- Monica Hesse
- Subject
-
- Accomack County (Va.) -- Economic conditions
- trueArsonists
- trueCouples
- trueCriminal psychology
- trueDrug addiction
- trueRecession (Economics)
- trueRural life
- SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / Rural
- TRUE CRIME
- trueTrials (Arson)
- trueTrue Crime -- Investigations and Trials
- True crimes stories
- trueVirginia
- Virginia -- Accomack County
- trueArson
- Accomack County (Va.) -- Social conditions
- Arson -- Virginia | Accomack County
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- Documents the trial of a man charged with dozens of counts of arson in a rural Virginia county, sharing insight into his struggles with addiction, his relationship with his accomplice girlfriend, and the impact of the fires on their community
- Summary
- The Washington Post reporter and author of Girl in the Blue Coat documents the trial of a man who was charged with dozens of counts of arson in rural Virginia county, sharing insight into the perpetrator's struggles with addiction, his relationship with his accomplice girlfriend and the impact of the fires on their community
- Award
-
- New York Times Notable Book, 2017
- Booklist Editors' Choice, 2017.
- http://library.link/vocab/ext/novelist/bookUI
- 10569312
- Cataloging source
- DLC
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Hesse, Monica
- Dewey number
- 364.16/42
- Illustrations
-
- illustrations
- plates
- Index
- no index present
- LC call number
- HV6638.5.U6
- LC item number
- H47 2017
- Literary form
- non fiction
- Nature of contents
- bibliography
- http://library.link/vocab/resourcePreferred
- True
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
-
- Arson
- Accomack County (Va.)
- Accomack County (Va.)
- SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / Rural
- TRUE CRIME
- Virginia
- Target audience
- adult
- http://bibfra.me/vocab/lite/titleRemainder
- love, arson, and life in a vanishing land
- Label
- American fire : love, arson, and life in a vanishing land, Monica Hesse
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [245]-255)
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
- "Charge that line!" -- "The South starts here" -- "Orange in the sky" -- Charlie -- Monomanie incendiaire -- Tonya -- "Like a ghost" -- "Tell us what you know about that" -- Charlie and Tonya -- Schrödinger's evidence -- The eastern shore arsonist hunters -- "I've seen enough ass to know" -- "Like hell was coming up through the ground" -- Tonya and Charlie -- "They're not hunters at all" -- "I didn't light them all" -- "Someday they'll go down together" -- "Everybody has a reason for why they do things in life" -- "I can't tell you something I don't know" -- "Midnight without makeup" -- The broken things -- "Time to wake up" -- Burned -- "We'd done it before" -- "They came out of everywhere" -- "Moral turpitude" -- What happened next -- "It's over"
- Control code
- 21077938
- Dimensions
- 25 cm
- Edition
- First edition.
- Extent
- 255 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates
- Isbn
- 9781631490514
- Lccn
- 2017014161
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
- n
- Other physical details
- illustrations
- System control number
-
- (OCoLC)ocn959880174
- (OCoLC)959880174
- Label
- American fire : love, arson, and life in a vanishing land, Monica Hesse
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [245]-255)
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
- "Charge that line!" -- "The South starts here" -- "Orange in the sky" -- Charlie -- Monomanie incendiaire -- Tonya -- "Like a ghost" -- "Tell us what you know about that" -- Charlie and Tonya -- Schrödinger's evidence -- The eastern shore arsonist hunters -- "I've seen enough ass to know" -- "Like hell was coming up through the ground" -- Tonya and Charlie -- "They're not hunters at all" -- "I didn't light them all" -- "Someday they'll go down together" -- "Everybody has a reason for why they do things in life" -- "I can't tell you something I don't know" -- "Midnight without makeup" -- The broken things -- "Time to wake up" -- Burned -- "We'd done it before" -- "They came out of everywhere" -- "Moral turpitude" -- What happened next -- "It's over"
- Control code
- 21077938
- Dimensions
- 25 cm
- Edition
- First edition.
- Extent
- 255 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates
- Isbn
- 9781631490514
- Lccn
- 2017014161
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
- n
- Other physical details
- illustrations
- System control number
-
- (OCoLC)ocn959880174
- (OCoLC)959880174
Subject
- Accomack County (Va.) -- Economic conditions
- trueArsonists
- trueCouples
- trueCriminal psychology
- trueDrug addiction
- trueRecession (Economics)
- trueRural life
- SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / Rural
- TRUE CRIME
- trueTrials (Arson)
- trueTrue Crime -- Investigations and Trials
- True crimes stories
- trueVirginia
- Virginia -- Accomack County
- trueArson
- Accomack County (Va.) -- Social conditions
- Arson -- Virginia | Accomack County
Genre
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- trueGeneral True Crime
- trueNew York Times Notable Books - Nonfiction: 2017
- trueBooklist Editors' Choice - Best Social Sciences Books: 2017
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