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Work Like any Other
[Paperback - 2016]
virginia reeves
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Category: Fiction
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Publisher: Scribner Uk | ISBN: 9781471152221 | Pages: 0
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Placing itself perfectly alongside acclaimed work by Philipp Meyer, Jane Smiley and J M Coetzee, this debut novel charts the story of Roscoe T Martin in rural Alabama in the 1920s. Roscoe has set his sights on a new type of power spreading at the start of the 20th century: electricity. It becomes his training, his life's work. But when his wife Marie inherits her father's failing farm, Roscoe has to give it up, with great cost to his pride and sense of self, his marriage and his family. Realising that he might lose them all, he uses his skills as an electrician to siphon energy from the state, ushering in a period of bounty and happiness on a farm recently falling to ruin. Even the love of Marie and their son seems back within Roscoe's grasp. Then everything changes. A young man is electrocuted on their land. Roscoe is arrested for manslaughter and - no longer an electrician or even a farmer - he must now carve out a place in a violent new world.

About the Author

Virginia Reeves is a writer and a teacher. A graduate of the Michener Center for Writers, her debut novel,Work Like Any Other, was longlisted for the Center for Fiction’s First Novel Prize and the Man Booker Prize. Booklist named it to their Top 10 First Novels of 2016, and the French translation,Un travail comme un autrewon the Page/America prize and the SensCritique prize for best American debut.After seven years in Texas, Virginia recently returned to her home in Montana. She lives in Helena with her husband, two daughters, and three-legged pit bull.

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