Five Past Midnight in Bhopal : The Epic Story of the World's Deadliest Industrial Disaster by Dominique LaPierre, Javier Moro, Kathryn Spink

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Format: Trade Paperback. Year: 2002. Advance Reading Copy Trade Paperback.

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"2002 hardback with d/j very good ++ condition. Thanks for looking at our books we ship fast and guarantee books we sell. One of the premier historians of our time, Dominique Lapierre is the author of such stirring classics as Is Paris Burning? and The Cit"

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2002 A wonderful copy with some minor edgewear to the cover. Book has tanning or browning due to normal aging process. -, Hard Cover, Very Good /

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Very Good Book is in near fine condition, clean text pages. Dust jacket VG, shows minimal wear.

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New York 2002 Hardcover 1st US Printing Very Good+ in Very Good+ dust jacket; Remainder mark to the top edge. 0446530883. Dustjacket is in a mylar cover.

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New York 2002 Hard Cover 1st ptg. Book: Very Good. DJ: Very Good 8vo. 403 pp. 6 1/4 x 9 1/4. Black boards with qtr red cloth, stamped in gold on spine. Glossy red dj. Very light wear.

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Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.A. 2002 Hard Cover First Edition Near Fine in Near Fine jacket 1st printing. Remainder mark.

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2002 Hard Cover FIRST EDITION Very Good in Very Good jacket HISTORY. 8vo-over 7"-9" tall. RED AND BLACK JACKET. 403 PAGES. BOOK IS VERY LIGHTLY SHELF COCKED. TANNING AT EXTREME PAGE EDGES, DOES NOT AFFECT THE TEXT. EXCEPT AS NOTED THE BOOK IS CLEAN, BRIGHT AND SECURE. HAS A PHOTO SECTION. FIRST EDITION, FIRST PRINT.

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As with Lapierre's City of Hope, this latest project, co-written with Spanish travel writer and journalist Moro (The Jaipur Foot), is part historical documentation and part dramatization, a modern fable depicting the communities that weathered the effects of early globalization in India. After DDT was banned in 1973, American chemical giant Union Carbide began to push Sevin, a pesticide that calls for highly toxic and unstable ingredients in its production. They built a processing plant in Bhopal, India, where a combination of poor supervision and penny-pinching tactics eventually led to the world's worst industrial disaster: on December 3, 1984, the plant sprung a leak during routine maintenance procedures. The resulting noxious vapors killed between 16,000 and 30,000 and left 500,000 permanently injured. As Lapierre and Moro recount the disaster, they weave in the story of a family of peasants forced to leave their farmland and move to the Bhopal region, where their fate intersected tragically with that of the plant. The moral of the story is familiar (what's good for Union Carbide is not so good for the world), but it still packs a bitterly ironic punch. With their canned dialogue and patronizing tone, the close-ups of Indian life are not as effective as the authors' straightforward history of the accident. Nevertheless, the inherent drama of the story keeps the pages turning, and its lessons make the book well worth picking up.

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