About a Mountain
by:
John D'Agata (author)
Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9780393068184 (0393068188)
Publish date: February 8th 2010
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Pages no: 236
Edition language: English
Instead of watching the Oscars last night, I picked up this longform essay, an often beautiful, obsessive examination of the plans to bury nuclear waste in Yucca mountain, outside Las Vegas.*Of course, it's not really about the mountain. Aboutness is a problem interrogated in the book, which emerge...