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开 本: 32开纸 张: 胶版纸包 装: 平装是否套装: 否国际标准书号ISBN: 9780812971309
Beginning on Valentine’s Day, 1981, when twelve-year-old Todd
Domboski plunged through the earth in his grandmother’s backyard in
Centralia, Pennsylvania, The Day the Earth Caved In is an
unprecedented and riveting account of the nation’s worst mine fire.
In astonishing detail, award-winning journalist Joan Quigley, the
granddaughter of Centralia miners, ushers readers into the dramatic
world of the underground blaze. Drawing on interviews with key
participants and exclusive new research, Quigley paints
unforgettable portraits of Centralia and its residents, from Tom
Larkin, the short-order cook and ex-hippie who rallied the
activists, to Helen Womer, the bank teller who galvanized the
opposition, denying the fire’s existence even as toxic fumes
invaded her home. Like Jonathan Harr’s A Civil Action, The Day
the Earth Caved In is a seminal investigation of individual
rights, corporate privilege, and governmental indifference to the
powerless.
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