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04516aam a22007698i 4500 001 C6D619F4CFC511E59B6F8479DAD10320 003 SILO 005 20230913010647 008 150729s2016 nyu 000 1 eng 010 $a 2015022240 020 $a 150111249X : HRD 020 $a 9781501112492 : HRD 040 $a DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d SILO 050 00 $a PS3618.E4458 $b W67 2016 100 1 $a Reeves, Virginia. 245 10 $a Work like any other : $b a novel / $c Virginia Reeves. 250 $a First Scribner hardcover edition. 260 $a $b Simon & Schuster $c 2016 263 $a 1603 300 $a 304 p. ; 440 0 $a Adult fiction on order 510 $a BLSS 510 $a BZ5X 510 $a KRA6 510 $a LA5T 510 $a LI5T 510 $a XNOS 510 $a XPPL 510 $a ZA6A 510 $a ZB6A 520 $a "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)"-- $c Provided by publisher. 520 $a "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 farmleads to an innocent man's death"-- $c Provided by publisher. 650 0 $a Electricians $v Fiction. 650 0 $a Manslaughter $v Fiction. 650 0 $a Prisoners $v Fiction. 650 0 $a Loss (Psychology) $v Fiction. 650 0 $a Redemption $v Fiction. 651 0 $a Alabama $v Fiction. 655 0 $a Psychological fiction. 650 7 $a FICTION / Literary. $2 bisacsh 650 7 $a FICTION / Historical. $2 bisacsh 650 7 $a FICTION / General. $2 bisacsh 941 $a 23 952 $l CJPC482 $d 20240202020634.0 952 $l BRPD251 $d 20240119013702.0 952 $l CPPC926 $d 20231111013504.0 952 $l LAPH975 $d 20230708010650.0 952 $l CMPE792 $d 20230629012944.0 952 $l PNAX964 $d 20230602010339.0 952 $l GBPF771 $d 20230203012339.0 952 $l GEPG771 $d 20210722052032.0 952 $l YEPF572 $d 20200204082440.0 952 $l TYPH572 $d 20200110064351.0 952 $l AAPF906 $d 20190717031134.0 952 $l D3PA284 $d 20181127013140.0 952 $l BOPG851 $d 20181006093726.0 952 $l MXPG943 $d 20180720044647.0 952 $l ALPE516 $d 20180523020012.0 952 $l GFPE771 $d 20171128012245.0 952 $l KSPG296 $d 20170516010523.0 952 $l VCPD034 $d 20170428011143.0 952 $l GDPF771 $d 20170418113246.0 952 $l SAPG074 $d 20160909011011.0 952 $l RQPC397 $d 20160820015541.0 952 $l OOAX232 $d 20160723010241.0 952 $l TFPI826 $d 20160427013542.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=C6D619F4CFC511E59B6F8479DAD10320Initiate Another SILO Locator Search