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3 maj 2016 · Told through a cast of characters whose lives are increasingly bound by the opposing interests that underpin the national debate, Heat & Light depicts a community blessed and cursed by its natural resources. Soaring, ambitious, it zooms from drill rig to shareholders’ meeting to the Three Mile Island nuclear reactor to the ruined landscape of ...
This Study Guide consists of approximately 66 pages of chapter summaries, quotes, character analysis, themes, and more - everything you need to sharpen your knowledge of Heat and Light.
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 heart - a bold, moving drama of hope and desperation, greed and power, big business and small-town families.
This study guide contains the following sections: Plot Summary. Chapters. Characters. Symbols and Symbolism. Settings. Themes and Motifs. Styles. This detailed literature summary also contains Quotes and a Free Quiz on Heat and Light: A Novel by Jennifer Haigh.
27 kwi 2016 · This new novel is populated with a large, completely believable cast of characters who lock antlers over fracking in the fictitious town of Bakerton.
10 maj 2016 · Heat and Light is an exquisitely designed, semi-satirical social novel featuring a cast of at least 15 main characters. The central story revolves around fracking — the method by which...
14 wrz 2016 · There is abundant heat in Jennifer Haigh’s serious, fierce, new novel, Heat and Light (Ecco), an exploration of economic and personal imperatives and temptations on all sides of the fracking industry. The Pennsylvania native returns here to her fictional western Pennsylvania former coal town: Bakerton, a community of marginally sustainable ...
