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Haigh, Jennifer,
1968-
Heat and light /
Jennifer Haigh.
First edition.
New York :
Ecco,
2016.
430 pages.
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.
20160525.
Farmers
Fiction.
Petroleum industry and trade
Fiction.
Pennsylvania
Fiction.