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From one of the most significant U.S. writers (David Foster Wallace), an investigation of Yucca Mountain and human destruction in Las Vegas.
When John DAgata helps his mother move to Las Vegas one summer, he begins to follow a story about the federal governments plan to store high-level nuclear waste at a place called Yucca Mountain, a desert range near the city of Las Vegas. Bearing witness to the parade of scientific, cultural, and political facts that give shape to Yuccas story, DAgata keeps the six tenets of reporting in mindWho, What, When, Where, Why, and Howarranging his own investigation around each vital question.Yet as the contradictions inherent in Yuccas story are revealed, DAgatas investigation turns inevitably personal. He finds himself investigating the death of a teenager who jumps off the tower of the Stratosphere Hotel, a boy whom DAgata believes he spoke with before his suicide.
Here is the work of a penetrating thinker whose startling portrait of a mountain in the desert compels a reexamination of the future of human life.
