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100 1  Hesse, Monica,|eauthor. 
245 10 American fire :|blove, arson, and life in a vanishing land
       /|cMonica Hesse. 
250    First edition. 
264  1 New York, N.Y. :|bLiveright Publishing Corporation,
       |c[2017] 
264  4 |c©2017 
300    255 pages, [8] unnumbered pages of plates :|billustrations
       ;|c25 cm 
336    text|btxt|2rdacontent 
337    unmediated|bn|2rdamedia 
338    volume|bnc|2rdacarrier 
505 0  "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" 
520    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. 
520    "The arsons started on a cold November midnight and didn't
       stop for months. Night after night, the people of Accomack
       County waited to see which building would burn down next, 
       regarding each other at first with compassion, and later 
       suspicion. Vigilante groups sprang up, patrolling the 
       rural Virginia coast with cameras and camouflage. 
       Volunteer firefighters slept at their stations. The 
       arsonist seemed to target abandoned buildings, but local 
       police were stretched too thin to surveil them all. 
       Accomack was desolate--there were hundreds of abandoned 
       buildings. And by the dozen they were burning. The culprit,
       and the path that led to these crimes, is a story of 
       twenty-first century America....Though it's hard to 
       believe today, one hundred years ago Accomack was the 
       richest rural county in the nation. Slowly it's been 
       drained of its industry--agriculture--as well as its 
       wealth and population. In an already remote region, 
       limited employment options offer little in the way of 
       opportunity. A mesmerizing and crucial panorama with 
       nationwide implications, American Fire asks what happens 
       when a community gets left behind. Hesse brings to life 
       the Eastern Shore and its inhabitants, battling a 
       punishing economy and increasingly terrified by a string 
       of fires they could not explain. The result evokes the 
       soul of rural America--a land half gutted before the fires
       even began." -- provided by publisher. 
650  0 Arson|zVirginia|zAccomack County. 
650  0 Rural crimes|zVirginia|zAccomack County. 
650  7 Arson.|2fast|0(OCoLC)fst00815158 
650  7 Economic history.|2fast|0(OCoLC)fst00901974 
650  7 Rural conditions.|2fast|0(OCoLC)fst01101474 
650  7 Rural crimes.|2fast|0(OCoLC)fst01101492 
650  7 Social conditions.|2fast|0(OCoLC)fst01919811 
651  0 Accomack County (Va.)|xRural conditions. 
651  0 Accomack County (Va.)|xEconomic conditions. 
651  0 Accomack County (Va.)|xSocial conditions. 
651  7 Virginia|zAccomack County.|2fast|0(OCoLC)fst01204485 
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