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Ever after : a father's true story

Title
Ever after : a father's true story / William Wharton.
Author
Wharton, William.
Publication
New York : Newmarket Press, 1995.

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Description
ix, 246 pages; 24 cm
Summary
  • On August 3, 1988, heavy black smoke engulfed an Oregon highway, causing a massive 23 car pile-up that claimed the lives of novelist William Wharton's thirty-six year-old daughter, Kate, her husband, Burt, and their two infant daughters. Victims of field burning, a routine agricultural practice that continues to this day, they were incinerated alive in their van. How could this be allowed to happen? And how can one ever come to terms with such a loss?
  • In Ever After, William Wharton searches for the answers to these questions. This, his first work of nonfiction, is a gripping account of a father's grief and relentless pursuit of justice. Writing with the inspired simplicity that has won him great acclaim, he evokes the voices and thoughts of his loved ones - the living and the dead - to reconstruct and reckon with the events that changed his life forever.
Uniform Title
Wrongful deaths
Alternative Title
Wrongful deaths
Subject
  • Wharton, William > Trials, litigation, etc
  • Wrongful death > Oregon
  • Traffic accidents > Oregon
  • Grass seed industry > Oregon
  • Burning of land > Oregon
  • Oregon > Trials, litigation, etc
Note
  • Originally published: Wrongful deaths. London : Granta Books, 1994.
ISBN
1557042233 :
LCCN
94045326
OCLC
  • 31709766
  • ocm31709766
Owning Institutions
Columbia University Libraries