Bibliograph

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

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Label

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

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references

Illustrations

platesillustrations

Index

no index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

American fire

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

959880174

Responsibility statement

Monica Hesse

Sub title

love, arson, and life in a vanishing land

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

Table Of Contents

"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."

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