American Fire – Love, Arson, and Life in a Vanishing Land : Love, Arson, and Life in a Vanishing Land
by
Monica Hesse
Book Details
Format
Paperback / Softback
ISBN-10
1631494511
ISBN-13
9781631494512
Publisher
W W Norton & Co Ltd
Imprint
Liveright Publishing Corporation
Country of Manufacture
US
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
May 22nd, 2018
Print length
272 Pages
Weight
224 grams
Dimensions
14.30 x 22.60 x 1.90 cms
Product Classification:
True crimeTrue crimeRural communities / rural lifeRural communities
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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.
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