John Sayles

Yellow Earth

Sprecher: Tiedemann, Gary

• Audio CD

Produktdetails

• Verlag: HighBridge Audio
• Gesamtlaufzeit: 975 Min.
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. Januar 2020
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781665119290
• Artikelnr.: 61508014

Autorenporträt

John Sayles works as a fiction writer, screenwriter, actor and feature film director. His novel Union Dues (1978) was nominated for the National Book Award and the National Critics' Circle Award. He has written over a hundred screenplays and was twice nominated for the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay. He has directed 18 feature films, with another, I Passed This Way, currently in progress. His films Matewan and Lone Star, as well as his previous novel A Moment in the Sun, are often used for instruction in History and American Studies courses. Yellow Earth is his fifth novel.

Inhaltsangabe

EXPLORATION- we meet the players as the decision is made to drill the
Bakken shale oil reserve
STIMULATION- people make commitments an take sides as the fracking begins
EXTRACTION- wells begins to pay off, a point of no return is reached
ABSQUATULATION- worldwide oil prices dip, the drillers leave as quickly as
they came, somebody gets left holding the bag