Bibliograph

A train in the night, the tragedy of Lac-Megantic, Anne-Marie Saint-Cerny, Christian Quesnel ; translated by W. Donald Wilson

Type

Label

A train in the night, the tragedy of Lac-Megantic, Anne-Marie Saint-Cerny, Christian Quesnel ; translated by W. Donald Wilson

Language

eng

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

no index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

A train in the night

Nature of contents

comics graphic novels

Oclc number

1372360462

Responsibility statement

Anne-Marie Saint-Cerny, Christian Quesnel ; translated by W. Donald Wilson

Sub title

the tragedy of Lac-Megantic

Summary

On a summer night in 2013, a runaway train loaded with explosive oil derailed in the small town of Lac-Megantic, Quebec. One of the deadliest rail disasters in Canadian history, Lac-Megantic stands as a haunting narrative of how the powerful profit from collective tragedy. Who are the real culprits of the disaster that claimed 47 lives? In this vivid, full-colour work of graphic nonfiction, award-winning author Anne-Marie Saint-Cerny and illustrator Christian Quesnel trace the path of the locomotive from the scene of the crime all the way back to cowboy producers of Dakota black gold, Wall Street investors, and politicians in the pocket of the billion-dollar oil and gas industry. With no national public inquiry launched or meaningful criminal charges laid, the victims of Lac-Megantic must not become mere statistics, nor the survivors left to the mercy of predatory developers and financial interests

Target audience

adolescent

resource.variantTitle

Tragedy of Lac-Megantic

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