About a Mountain

About a Mountain
ISBN-10
0393068188
ISBN-13
9780393068184
Category
Social Science
Pages
237
Language
English
Published
2010
Publisher
W. W. Norton & Company
Author
John D'Agata

Description

The author's investigation into all facets of Yucca Mountain, a desert range near Las Vegas slated to be a federal nuclear waste storage facility, turns personal when his research unearths a report of a teenager's suicidal plunge off the roof of the Stratosphere Hotel, a boy the author believes he spoke with before his suicide.

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