Heat and light
Bestselling author Jennifer Haigh returns to the Pennsylvania town and the conflicting forces at its heart - hope and desperation, greed and power, big business and small-town families. Forty years ago, Bakerton coal fueled the country. Then the mines closed, and the town wore away. Now Bakerton has...
| Main Author: | Haigh, Jennifer, 1968- |
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| Format: | Books Print Book |
| Language: | English |
| Published: |
New York :
Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers,
[2016]
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| Edition: | First edition. |
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| Summary: |
Bestselling author Jennifer Haigh returns to the Pennsylvania town and the conflicting forces at its heart - hope and desperation, greed and power, big business and small-town families. Forty years ago, Bakerton coal fueled the country. Then the mines closed, and the town wore away. Now Bakerton has been granted a surprise third act: it sits squarely atop the Marcellus Shale, a massive deposit of natural gas. Told through a cast of characters whose lives are increasingly bound by the opposing interests that underpin the national debate, this novel depicts a community blessed and cursed by its natural resources. |
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| Physical Description: |
430 pages ; 24 cm |
| ISBN: |
9780061763298 : HRD 0061763292 : HRD |
| Author Notes: |
(Bowker Author Biography) |