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001 2009039295
003 DLC
005 20100908094238.0
008 091013s2010 nyu b 000 0 eng
010 $a 2009039295
020 $a9780393068184 (hardcover)
020 $a0393068188 (hardcover)
035 $a(OCoLC)ocn317919398
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050 00 $aTD898.12.N3$bD335 2010
082 00 $a979.3/13503$222
100 1 $aD'Agata, John,$d1974-
245 10 $aAbout a mountain /$cJohn D'Agata.
250 $a1st ed.
260 $aNew York :$bW.W. Norton,$cc2010.
300 $a236 p. ;$c22 cm.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 203-236).
520 $aWhen John D'Agata helps his mother move to Las Vegas one summer, he begins to follow a story about the federal government's plan to store high-level nuclear waste at Yucca Mountain, a desert range near the city of Las Vegas. Bearing witness to the parade of scientific, cultural, and political facts that give shape to Yucca's story, D'Agata keeps the six tenets of reporting in mind--Who, What, When, Where, Why, and How--arranging his own investigation around each vital question. Yet as the contradictions inherent in Yucca's story are revealed, D'Agata's investigation turns inevitably personal. He finds himself investigating the death of a teenager who jumps off the tower of the Stratosphere Hotel, a boy whom D'Agata believes he spoke with before his suicide. Here is the work of a penetrating thinker whose startling portrait of a mountain in the desert compels a reexamination of the future of human life.--From publisher description.
650 0 $aRadioactive waste repositories$zNevada$zYucca Mountain.
651 0 $aLas Vegas Metropolitan Area (Nev.)$xSocial life and customs.
651 0 $aYucca Mountain (Nev.)