Yellow Earth

Name: Yellow Earth
Brand: HighBridge Audio
Availability: InStock
Author: John Sayles
ISBN: 9781684576906

Author: John Sayles

Narrator: Gary Tiedemann

Unabridged: 16 hr 14 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Highbridge Audio

Published: 01/07/2020

Categories: Fiction, Political, Indigenous

Synopsis

On the banks of the Missouri River, the town of Yellow Earth and the Three Nations reservation prepare for an invasion—the ground beneath their feet is loaded with readily frackable shale oil and the minions of corporate energy are rushing to extract it. Tribal Chairman Harleigh Kildeer welcomes Big Oil with open arms, while county sheriff Will Crowder has to deal with the overnight influx of roughnecks, truckers, drug dealers, and sex workers.

About John Sayles

John Sayles works as a fiction writer, screenwriter, actor, and feature film director. His novel Union Dues was nominated for the National Book Award and the National Critics' Circle Award. He has written over a hundred screenplays and was twice nominated for the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay. He has directed eighteen feature films. His films Matewan and Lone Star, as well as his novel A Moment in the Sun, are often used for instruction in history and American studies courses.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Betsy on September 11, 2020

Diving into a John Sayles novel is just that—the reader takes a swan dive, unable to know ahead of time how deep the water is, what might be swimming around in it, or even where one will be. Yellow Earth's "pool" is oil-digging (specifically fracking) country on a state-sized Three Nations Indian re......more

Goodreads review by Kerry on March 24, 2020

John Sayles writes both novels and screenplays and was twice nominated for the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay. The feature film I am most familiar with Sayles directing is Matawen about a Virginia coal miners strike that erupted into violence, and introduced the actor Chris Cooper. Sayle......more

Goodreads review by El on July 18, 2021

As ever the characters in a John Sayles novel are very human, and represent well their place and their time. You learn so much by engaging with the story cinematically (because each chapter and section could be screenplay staging, the dialog is well chosen to get big points across). But...this story......more