The Resource Work like any other : a novel, Virginia Reeves
Work like any other : a novel, Virginia Reeves
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The item Work like any other : a novel, Virginia Reeves represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Bates College.
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- Summary
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- "In 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)"--
- "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"--
- Language
- eng
- Edition
- First Scribner hardcover edition
- Extent
- 262 pages
- Isbn
- 9781501112508
- Label
- Work like any other : a novel
- Title
- Work like any other
- Title remainder
- a novel
- Statement of responsibility
- Virginia Reeves
- Subject
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- Electricians -- Fiction
- Electricians -- Fiction
- Fiction
- Loss (Psychology)
- Loss (Psychology) -- Fiction
- Loss (Psychology) -- Fiction
- Manslaughter
- Manslaughter -- Fiction
- Manslaughter -- Fiction
- Novels
- Novels
- Alabama
- Prisoners -- Fiction
- Prisoners -- Fiction
- Psychological fiction
- Psychological fiction
- Psychological fiction
- Redemption
- Redemption -- Fiction
- Redemption -- Fiction
- Prisoners
- Alabama -- Fiction
- Alabama -- Fiction
- Electricians
- Language
- eng
- Summary
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- "In 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)"--
- "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"--
- Assigning source
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- Provided by publisher
- Provided by publisher
- Cataloging source
- DLC
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Reeves, Virginia,
- Index
- no index present
- Literary form
- novels
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- Electricians
- Manslaughter
- Prisoners
- Loss (Psychology)
- Redemption
- Alabama
- Electricians
- Loss (Psychology)
- Manslaughter
- Prisoners
- Redemption
- Alabama
- Label
- Work like any other : a novel, Virginia Reeves
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
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- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
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- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Control code
- 915159406
- Dimensions
- 24 cm
- Edition
- First Scribner hardcover edition
- Extent
- 262 pages
- Isbn
- 9781501112508
- Lccn
- 2015022240
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
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- n
- System control number
- (OCoLC)915159406
- Label
- Work like any other : a novel, Virginia Reeves
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
-
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Control code
- 915159406
- Dimensions
- 24 cm
- Edition
- First Scribner hardcover edition
- Extent
- 262 pages
- Isbn
- 9781501112508
- Lccn
- 2015022240
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- n
- System control number
- (OCoLC)915159406
Subject
- Electricians -- Fiction
- Electricians -- Fiction
- Fiction
- Loss (Psychology)
- Loss (Psychology) -- Fiction
- Loss (Psychology) -- Fiction
- Manslaughter
- Manslaughter -- Fiction
- Manslaughter -- Fiction
- Novels
- Novels
- Alabama
- Prisoners -- Fiction
- Prisoners -- Fiction
- Psychological fiction
- Psychological fiction
- Psychological fiction
- Redemption
- Redemption -- Fiction
- Redemption -- Fiction
- Prisoners
- Alabama -- Fiction
- Alabama -- Fiction
- Electricians
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