Heat and Light
New York : Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, [2016]
Format: Book
Edition: First edition.
Description: 430 pages ; 24 cm
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.
Subjects:
Farmers -- Pennsylvania -- Fiction.
Shale gas industry -- Fiction.
Pennsylvania -- Fiction.
Farmers -- Pennsylvania -- Fiction.
Shale gas industry -- Fiction.
Pennsylvania -- Fiction.
ISBN:
9780061763298 (HRD)