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American fire : love, arson, and life in a vanishing land  Cover Image Book Book

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

Hesse, Monica, (author.).

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.

Record details

  • ISBN: 9781631490514
  • ISBN: 1631490516
  • Physical Description: 255 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm
  • Edition: First edition.
  • Publisher: New York : Liveright Publishing Corporation, a division of W. W. Norton & Company, [2017]

Content descriptions

Formatted Contents Note:
"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"
Subject: Arson > Virginia > Accomack County.
Accomack County (Va.) > Economic conditions.
Accomack County (Va.) > Social conditions.

Available copies

  • 18 of 18 copies available at Missouri Evergreen.
  • 0 of 0 copies available at Trails Regional.
  • 0 of 0 copies available at Trails Regional-Technical Services.

Holds

  • 1 current hold with 18 total copies.
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Location Call Number / Copy Notes Barcode Shelving Location Status Due Date
Adair County Public Library A 364.1 Hes (Text) 34029002345352 Non Fiction Available -
Barry Lawrence - Cassville Library 364.16 HES (Text) 37884102755208 Adult Non-Fiction Available -
Bollinger County Library 364.16 (Text) 32713200007949 Non-Fiction Available -
Brookfield Public Library 364.164 HES (Text) 32512909361707 Adult Nonfiction Available -
Cape Girardeau Public Library 364.164 HES (Text) 33042004470566 Adult Non-Fiction Available -
Carthage Public Library 364.1642 H46a (Text) 34MO2001797374 Adult Nonfiction Available -
Cass County Library-Northern Resource Center 364.1642 HES 2017 (Text) 0002204843326 Adult Non-Fiction Available -
De Soto Public Library 364.16 HESSE Monica (Text) 33858000105066 Adult Non-Fiction Available -
Doniphan-Ripley County Library 364.15 HESSE (Text) 38421100678527 Adult Non-Fiction Available -
Grundy County Jewett Norris 364.16 (Text) 33577000094454 Adult Non-Fiction Available -


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