American fire : love, arson, and life in a vanishing land / Monica Hesse.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hesse, Monica, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Arson--Virginia--Accomack County.

Arson.

Accomack County (Va.)--Economic conditions.

Accomack County (Va.)--Social conditions.

Virginia--Accomack County.

Arson--Accomack County (Va.).

TRUE CRIME / General.

Local Subjects:

Accomack County (Va.)--Economic conditions.

Accomack County (Va.)--Social conditions.

Arson--Accomack County (Va.).

TRUE CRIME / General.

Genre:

True crimes stories.

Physical Description:

255 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : Liveright Publishing Corporation, a division of W. W. Norton & Company, [2017]

Summary:

Documents the trial of a man charged with dozens of counts of arson in a rural Virginia county, sharing insight into his struggles with addiction, his relationship with his accomplice girlfriend, and the impact of the fires on their community.

Contents:

"Charge that line!"

"The South starts here"

"Orange in the sky"

Charlie

Monomanie incendiaire

Tonya

"Like a ghost"

"Tell us what you know about that"

Charlie and Tonya

Schrödinger's evidence

The eastern shore arsonist hunters

"I've seen enough ass to know"

"Like hell was coming up through the ground"

Tonya and Charlie

"They're not hunters at all"

"I didn't light them all"

"Someday they'll go down together"

"Everybody has a reason for why they do things in life"

"I can't tell you something I don't know"

"Midnight without makeup"

The broken things

"Time to wake up"

Burned

"We'd done it before"

"They came out of everywhere"

"Moral turpitude"

What happened next

"It's over"

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

9781631490514

1631490516

OCLC:

959880174