Those who favor fire
Subtitle: a novel
By: Lauren Wolk
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Random House
Published: 1998
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 374
ISBN-13: 9780679448495
Subjects: Relocation (Housing); Coal mines and mining; Community life; Coal mine waste; Pollution; Fiction
Description: A romance between two people in a Pennsylvania town, below which a fire burns in a coal mine. He is Christopher, a drifter, but also a rich man. As people and animals die, sucked by the fire, he realizes the town is doomed and uses his money to build houses for resettlement. Many take advantage, but Rachel, his love, refuses to abandon her hometown. How can he convince her before it is too late? A first novel.