EGRETS TO THE FLAMES by Anton, Barbara.

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EGRETS TO THE FLAMES

Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )

Ipswich, MA: Oceanview Publishing, (2007). First edition - A family saga by this award winning writer, published posthumously. It opens with a flock of egrets diving into South Florida sugar cane fires in the early 1980s. "Hampton, the tough-talking but well-intentioned patriarch of the family sugar cane plantation Hampton House, near Belle Glade, feuds with the local environmentalists and cane cutters' union to keep his lucrative enterprise thriving as he struggles to hold together his dysfunctional family."(Publisher's Weekly) Includes vivid scenes of harvesting and processing the sugar cane and the hot subtropical setting, as well as of the continuing destruction of the environment and the exploitation of the workers - many Jamaican - in a world where growers, politicians and lobbyists reap millions. Promotional card laid in. 301 pp.

Condition: Fine in glossy illustrated wrappers.

Book ID: 85704
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