Jennifer Haigh

Heat and Light

Buch

Forty years ago, Bakerton coal fueled the country. Then the mines closed, and the town wore away like a bar of soap. Now Bakerton has been granted a surprise third act: it sits squarely atop the Marcellus Shale, a massive deposit of natural gas.To drill or not to drill? Prison guard Rich Devlin leases his mineral rights to finance his dream of farming. He doesn’t count on the truck traffic and nonstop noise, his brother’s skepticism or the paranoia of his wife, Shelby. Meanwhile his neighbors, organic dairy farmers Mack and Rena, hold out against the drilling—until a passionate environmental activist disrupts their lives.Told through a cast o… Mehr

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Produktdetails

ISBN: 978-0-06-176349-6
EAN: 9780061763496
Produktnummer: 20055028
Verlag: Harper Collins (US)
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2017
Seitenangabe: 448 S.
Gattung: Novel
Ausstattung: Trade Paperback
Masse: H20.4 cm x B13.4 cm x D2.8 cm 323 g
Gewicht: 323

Über den Autor

Jennifer Haigh is the author of the short-story collection News from Heaven and four critically acclaimed novels: Faith, The Condition, Baker Towers, and Mrs. Kimble. Her books have won both the PEN/Hemingway Award for debut fiction and the PEN/L.L. Winship Award for work by a New England writer. Her short fiction has been published widely, in The Atlantic, Granta, The Best American Short Stories, and many other places. She lives in Boston.