Work Like Any Other
Virginia Reeves
Sold by Book Haven, Wellington, WLG, New Zealand
AbeBooks Seller since 7 April 2005
Used - Soft cover
Condition: Used - Good
Ships from New Zealand to U.S.A.
Quantity: 1 available
Add to basketSold by Book Haven, Wellington, WLG, New Zealand
AbeBooks Seller since 7 April 2005
Condition: Used - Good
Quantity: 1 available
Add to basketIn This Astonishingly Accomplished, Morally Complicated, Exceptional And Starkly Beautiful Debut (kevin Powers, National Book Award-nominated Author Of The Yellow Birds), A Prideful Electrician In 1920s Rural Alabama Struggles To Overcome Past Sins And Find Peace After Being Sent To Prison For Manslaughter. Roscoe T Martin Set His Sights On A New Type Of Power Spreading At The Start Of The Twentieth Century: Electricity. It Became His Training, His Life's Work. But When His Wife, Marie, Inherits Her Father's Failing Farm, Roscoe Has To Give Up His Livelihood, With Great Cost To His Sense Of Self, His Marriage, And His Family. Realizing He Might Lose Them All If He Doesn't Do Something, He Begins To Use His Skills As An Electrician To Siphon Energy From The State, Ushering In A Period Of Bounty And Happiness. Even The Love Of Marie And Their Child Seem Back Within Roscoe's Grasp. Then A Young Man Working For The State Power Company Stumbles On Roscoe's Illegal Lines And Is Electrocuted, And Everything Changes: Roscoe Is Arrested; The Farm Once More Starts To Deteriorate; And Marie Abandons Her Husband, Leaving Him To Face His Twenty-year Sentence Alone. Now An Unmoored Roscoe Must Carve Out A Place At Kilby Prison. Climbing The Ranks Of The Incarcerated From Dairy Hand To Librarian To Dog Boy, An Inmate Who Helps The Guards Track Down Escapees, He Is Ultimately Forced To Ask Himself Once More If His Work Is Just That, Or If The Price Of His Crimes--for Him And His Family--is Greater Than He Ever Let Himself Believe. Gorgeously Spare And Brilliantly Insightful, Work Like Any Other Is A Striking Debut About Love And Redemption, The Heavy Burdens Of Family And Guilt, And Learning How To Escape Them.virginia Reeves Is A Major New Talent (philipp Meyer, New York Times Bestselling Author Of The Son)-- 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. A Starkly Beautiful, Morally Complicated And Astonishingly Accomplished Debut Set In 1920s Rural Alabama Following Roscoe T. Martin, A Prideful Electrician Sent To Prison After His Illegal Siphoning Of Electrical State Power For His Wife's Family's Farm Leads To An Innocent Man's Death-- Virginia Reeves. 262 pages.
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