American Fire: love, arson, and life in a vanishing land
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[United States] : Dreamscape Media, 2017.
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Shocked by a five-month arson spree that left rural Virginia reeling, Washington Post reporter Monica Hesse drove down to Accomack County to cover the trial of Charlie Smith, who pled guilty to sixty-seven counts of arson. But Charlie wasn't lighting fires alone: he had an accomplice, his girlfriend Tonya Bundick. Through her depiction of the dangerous shift that happened in their passionate relationship, Hesse brilliantly brings to life the once-thriving coastal community and its distressed inhabitants, who had already been decimated by a punishing economy before they were terrified by a string of fires they could not explain. Incorporating this drama into the long-overlooked history of arson in the United States, American Fire re-creates the anguished nights that this quiet county spent lit up in flames, mesmerizingly evoking a microcosm of rural America - a land half gutted before the fires even began.

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Shocked by a five-month arson spree that left rural Virginia reeling, Washington Post reporter Monica Hesse drove down to Accomack County to cover the trial of Charlie Smith, who pled guilty to sixty-seven counts of arson. But Charlie wasn't lighting fires alone: he had an accomplice, his girlfriend Tonya Bundick. Through her depiction of the dangerous shift that happened in their passionate relationship, Hesse brilliantly brings to life the once-thriving coastal community and its distressed inhabitants, who had already been decimated by a punishing economy before they were terrified by a string of fires they could not explain. Incorporating this drama into the long-overlooked history of arson in the United States, American Fire re-creates the anguished nights that this quiet county spent lit up in flames, mesmerizingly evoking a microcosm of rural America - a land half gutted before the fires even began.
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Hesse, M., & Eby, T. (2017). American Fire: love, arson, and life in a vanishing land. Unabridged. [United States], Dreamscape Media.

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Hesse, Monica and Tanya, Eby. 2017. American Fire: Love, Arson, and Life in a Vanishing Land. [United States], Dreamscape Media.

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Hesse, Monica and Tanya, Eby, American Fire: Love, Arson, and Life in a Vanishing Land. [United States], Dreamscape Media, 2017.

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Hesse, Monica, and Tanya Eby. American Fire: Love, Arson, and Life in a Vanishing Land. Unabridged. [United States], Dreamscape Media, 2017.

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