Amity and Prosperity : One Family and the Fracturing of America
24.99€
| ISBN | 9780374103118 |
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| Book Format | Hardback |
The 2019 Pulitzer Prize Winner in General Non Fiction |
Author: Elisa Griswold
Published:22 Jun 2018
Description
In Amity and Prosperity, the prize winning poet and journalist Eliza Griswold exposes the tattered edges of the social fabric in rural America. In a work rich with narrative suspense, she explores the volatile personalities and politics of a small Allegheny town that has an abundance of natural gas but no municipal water supply. The result is a definitive guide to the fracking debate, and to the larger social and environmental hazards that are upending rural America.
Stacey Haney, a lifelong resident of Amity, Pennsylvania, is struggling to support her children when the fracking boom comes to town. Like most of her neighbours, she sees the energy companies’ payments as a windfall. Soon trucks are rumbling down her unpaved road and a fenced-off fracking site rises on adjacent land.