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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: Brad TyerPublisher: Beacon Press Imprint: Beacon Press Dimensions: Width: 15.20cm , Height: 1.70cm , Length: 22.90cm Weight: 0.340kg ISBN: 9780807033258ISBN 10: 0807033251 Pages: 248 Publication Date: 25 March 2014 Audience: General/trade , General Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: To order  Stock availability from the supplier is unknown. We will order it for you and ship this item to you once it is received by us. Table of ContentsPreface Part 1: Headwater Part 2: Venus Rising Part 3: Red Harvest Part 4: Clark Fork Part 5: Opportunity Part 6: Revival Part 7: Confluence A Word About Facts Acknowledgements Sources CreditsReviewsMr. Tyer has written a lovely book, searing in its anger, about a beautiful but much abused place. -- Larry McMurtry This previously neglected subject provides a great way to talk about the crazy doubleness of Montana, a state we've idealized and plundered for two hundred years. Opportunity's story lines stretch not only across the state but around the country and the world, and Brad Tyer is just the person to follow them. His writing is straightforward, heartfelt, and elegant. --Ian Frazier, author of Travels in Siberia and Great Plains Tyer's evocative prose of quiet melancholy and gentle humor. -- Kirkus Reviews That the most scapegoated place in Montana is called 'Opportunity' is an irony so rich that a skilled blacksmith could forge it into swords, or plowshares, as the spirit moved. Brad Tyer is that blacksmith. Deploying a unique blend of journalistic acumen, lyric scholarship, and canoemanship, Tyer has fashioned an emblematic history, biopsy, and eulogy not just of a river and town, but of the thankfully dying extraction juggernauts of the post-industrial West. --David James Duncan, author of The River Why and The Brothers K Memoir, history, and the unequal application of economic justice come together in Tyer's deeply felt and sharply penned nonfiction debut. -- Publisher's Weekly Brad Tyer, in this excellently reported book, asks a fundamental question: is it fair that Missoula, a thriving little city, gets its poisons cleaned up at the expense of Opportunity? Citizens in Opportunity don't think so. As the globe industrializes, even more toxic waste is being created, and while we can move it around, we can't make it go away. Pretty soon we'll be eager to mend our ways. But how? We should all be reading Opportunity, Montana. --William Kittredge, author of Hole in the Sky and The Nature of Generosity An intelligent, insightful, and finely crafted book that channels outrage into clear thinki Author InformationBrad Tyer has worked as an editor at the MissoulaIndependentand the Texas Observer. His writing has appeared inOutside,High Country News,and the New York Times Book Review, among other publications. From the Hardcover edition. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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