Heat and light
By: Jennifer Haigh
Edition: First edition.
Publisher: Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Published: 2016
Language: eng
Number of pages: 430
ISBN-13: 9780061763298
Subjects: Farmers; Shale gas industry; Fiction
Other titles: Heat & light
Description: 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.