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Carregando... Lady Chevy: A Novelde John Woods
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Registre-se no LibraryThing tpara descobrir se gostará deste livro. Ainda não há conversas na Discussão sobre este livro. Amy Wirkner lives in a small Ohio town. She is obese and is routinely bullied by her peers, thus her nickname, Chevy because of her size. She is obese and bullied and shamed about it. Amy's parents were cajoled into selling mineral rights to a slick salesman, which has led to fracking, polluted water, and a little brother with serious developmental problems. Amy is smart though, determined to go to college, and become a vet. Her best friend convinces her to drive him to plant a bomb at one of the fracking sites. A security guard wings the friend, and is trying to catch them, when Amy unloads her shotgun twice to disable the car, but does much more. The cops investigate, and Amy takes decisive action to defend her freedom. There is also a second, strange storyline about a local cop who likes to play judge, jury and executioner. I was glad to get out of this one alive. Many others did not. Too much hatred and violence for me, without any sort of moral compass. ( ) sem resenhas | adicionar uma resenha
In a forgotten part of Middle America, a defiant act leaves one man dead and one teenage girl faced with a stark decision that could mean losing everything. Amy Wirkner, a high school senior in Barnesville, Ohio, is a loner, nicknamed "Chevy" for her size. She's smart, funny, and absolutely determined to escape from her small town in the Ohio Valley, a place poisoned by fracking. She does well in school despite the cruelty of her classmates and has her eyes on a college scholarship, so she can one day become a veterinarian and make something of herself. But even as she tries to keep her head down and stay out of trouble, trouble seems to find her. Believing toxic water has poisoned her family, Amy one night becomes involved in an act of ecoterrorism against a local fracking company that goes terribly wrong. Her oldest friend Paul, as angry and defiant as she is, has drawn her into this dark world-and now a man is dead as a result. But Amy can't-won't-let one night's mistake stand in the way of her plans. Touching on important topics as wide-ranging as ethnic hatred, police corruption, environmental decay, and gun violence, Lady Chevy is one girl's story that highlights the darkest parts of modern America with surprising results. Não foram encontradas descrições de bibliotecas. |
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