A memoir-meets-exposé that examines our fraught relationship with the West and our attempts to clean up a toxic environmental legacy
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"Mr. 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"An intelligent, insightful, and finely crafted book that channels outrage into clear thinking."--Booklist
"Industrial progress always leaves a hidden country of spills and blight. In this powerful and poignant memoir, Brad Tyer takes us up the river into one of America's own ravaged quarters and asks important questions about how we lock away parts of our history. This is not just a book about burying a deadly inheritance; it's about fathers and sons and the erasing flow of time. An amazing debut from one who knows the country intimately." --Tom Zoellner, author of Uranium: War Energy and the Rock That Shaped the World "Tyer blends nature writing and memoir, focused on his estrangement from a perfectionist father, with cultural history and journalistic reporting, including interviews with a variety of local players. The mix can seem a bit unwieldy. But the result is an engaging, almost breathtaking bit of nonfiction." --Billings Gazette "When a story about slag heaps and sluices can make the hair on the back of your neck stand up, you know you're holding rare ore." --Missoula Independent"About this title" may belong to another edition of this title.
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