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Sto caricando le informazioni... Heat and Light (2016)di Jennifer Haigh
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Iscriviti per consentire a LibraryThing di scoprire se ti piacerà questo libro. Attualmente non vi sono conversazioni su questo libro. I very much liked Mercy Street and found a lot to like in this novel as well. The blade is not as sharp -- Mercy Street made incisive points about the connection between white supremacy and abortion -- but the arm is just as strong: the plot is a mighty construction and Haigh manages to keep it standing until the very end. Only one character struck me as truly wasted (figuratively and literally), and that's Darren. He did get Gia onstage but I'm not sure we needed her either. Even so, the characters are well-drawn and honest and the violation of the land and of every thing else comes across loud and clear as a central theme. I like Haigh's writing very much. I'm looking forward to her next novel. ( ) Elaborately constructed novel about the energy industry and the environmental impact of fracking. Set in the fictional rural town of Bakerton, Pennsylvania, representatives of a Texas-based oil company convince landowning residents to sell their mineral rights. Fracking involves high-pressure injection of liquids into underground shale deposits to extract natural gas. Many residents see it as a way out of their economic woes. Some are concerned over the ecological impact. The novel contains a wide array of characters, covering all sides of the fracking debate. They include local residents, Texas oil executives, salespeople, drilling crews, sub-contractors, and environmental activists. The characters are believable, and the community is well-drawn. It is as easy to sympathize with the family that wants to save money to fulfill their dream of opening a dairy farm as it is with the organic farmers that do not want questions about the quality of their products. In this depressed economic area, the author incorporates struggles related to job losses and drug addictions. This novel is a story about class, economics, and the impact of drilling. Dramatic tension is maintained through the question of whether or not the drinking water is contaminated, resulting in disagreements among families and neighbors. Haigh’s writing is imaginative and perceptive. I am impressed by her ability to juggle the many storylines without seeming overextended. I will definitely be reading more of her work. On the surface, this is a novel about fracking, and how it is harmful to all living things - which it absolutely is. But it's about so much more. About life today. And how past events - like Three Mile Island, or Chernobyl - have reached far into the future. A large, multigenerational cast of colorful, utterly human characters add depth and meaning to HEAT & LIGHT, one more chapter in author Jennifer Haigh's continuing saga of the fictional town of Bakerton, Pennsylvania. If you've not yet read her other two books, BAKER TOWERS and NEWS FROM HEAVEN, do. Oh, and don't forget her latest novel, MERCY STREET (ostensibly about abortion, but again about so much more), because Bakerton is in there too. Enough said. I love the way this woman writes. My very highest recommendation. - Tim Bazzett, author of the memoir, BOOKLOVER An intelligent, interesting read incorporating current and historical events and concerns around fracking (which really scares me!), nuclear power and people living in a part of the country that depend on non-renewable energy for their livelihoods. Complex issues that are well-presented in this book, although, in my opinion, not entirely resolved (which may have been the author's aim - maybe there's a follow-up book in the works...). I enjoyed this book and recommend it. I really did enjoy Jennifer Haigh's "Mrs. Kimble" but this is the second book by Haigh that I could not get though. Heat & Light drags. It drags and drags and I just don't care what happens to anyone. Taking place in the town of Bakertown, "Heat & Light" showcases the changes the town experiences after a natural gas deposit is found. I really can't tell you much more than that. There were characters whose names I am blanking on. Some of the book followed some of the characters and then it jumps around to those people who want to drill in the town, and then back again. I just recall the character of Shelby and her family and how her and her husband Rich don't seem to like each other much. The writing was okay, but honestly the flow of this book was disjointed. We kept jumping around timelines (I think) and I honestly couldn't keep straight what was going on. I wish that Ms. Haigh had just focused on the residents of the town and that's it. The setting of Bakertown felt flat in this one. Probably because there's not much description of the place beyond the opening chapter. I really didn't get a sense of how the town had changed to it's present day setting in the book. I just wish that any part of the book (people, characters, and writing) had come alive for me in any way. Instead I was bored from almost the beginning right up until I DNFed at page 210. nessuna recensione | aggiungi una recensione
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HTML: Acclaimed New York Times bestselling author Jennifer Haigh returns to the Pennsylvania town at the center of her iconic novel Baker Towers in this ambitious, achingly human story of modern America and the conflicting forces at its heartâ??a bold, moving drama of 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 like a bar of soap. Now Bakerton has been granted a surprise third act: it sits squarely atop the Marcellus Shale, a massive deposit of natural gas. To drill or not to drill? Prison guard Rich Devlin leases his mineral rights to finance his dream of farming. He doesn't count on the truck traffic and nonstop noise, his brother's skepticism or the paranoia of his wife, Shelby, who insists the water smells strange and is poisoning their frail daughter. Meanwhile his neighbors, organic dairy farmers Mack and Rena, hold out against the drillingâ??until a passionate environmental activist disrupts their lives. Told through a cast of characters whose lives are increasingly bound by the opposing interests that underpin the national debate, Heat and Light depicts a community blessed and cursed by its natural resources. Soaring and ambitious, it zooms from drill rig to shareholders' meeting to the Three Mile Island nuclear reactor to the ruined landscape of the "strippins," haunting reminders of Pennsylvania's past energy booms. This is a dispatch from a forgotten Americaâ??a work of searing moral clarity from one of the finest writers of her generation, a courageous and necessary b Non sono state trovate descrizioni di biblioteche |
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