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01908aam a2200301Ii 4500 001 B27EBFCCA18B11E6AED112AEDAD10320 003 SILO 005 20161103010209 008 160113t20162016enk 000 1 eng 020 $a 1471152219 020 $a 9781471152214 035 $a (OCoLC)936374210 040 $a Nz $b eng $e rda $c NZTPP $d YDX $d WVU $d OCLCO $d IUL $d OCLCO $d IWA $d SILO 100 1 $a Reeves, Virginia $e author. 245 10 $a Work like any other / $c Virginia Reeves. 264 1 $a London : $b Scribner, $c 2016. 300 $a 262 pages ; $c 24 cm 520 $a 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. 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. 941 $a 1 952 $l USUX851 $d 20200806023404.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=B27EBFCCA18B11E6AED112AEDAD10320 994 $a C0 $b IWAInitiate Another SILO Locator Search