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In this ';inventive, beautiful, and deceptively morally complex novel' (The Miami Herald), a prideful electrician in 1920s rural Alabama struggles to overcome past sins, find peace, and rescue his marriage 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 lifes work. But when his wife, Marie, inherits her fathers 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 doesnt do something, he begins 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 Roscoes grasp.

Then a young man working for the state power company stumbles on Roscoes illegal lines and is electrocuted, and everything ch

Work Like Any Other

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      Publisher Scribner Book Company
      Published 14 March 2017
      ISBN-13 9781501112508
      978-1501112508
      ISBN-10 1501112503

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      LONGLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE

      In this ';inventive, beautiful, and deceptively morally complex novel' (The Miami Herald), a prideful electrician in 1920s rural Alabama struggles to overcome past sins, find peace, and rescue his marriage 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 lifes work. But when his wife, Marie, inherits her fathers 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 doesnt do something, he begins 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 Roscoes grasp.

      Then a young man working for the state power company stumbles on Roscoes illegal lines and is electrocuted, and everything ch

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