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Work Like Any Other: Longlisted for the Man Booker Prize
Virginia Reeves
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Description for Work Like Any Other: Longlisted for the Man Booker Prize
Paperback. From an astonishing new voice, this debut charts the life of Roscoe T Martin, first as a farm owner with a fractured family, then as prison inmate.. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 130 x 19. .
LONGLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE FOR FICTION 2016
Placing itself perfectly alongside acclaimed work by Philipp Meyer, Jane Smiley and JM 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 ... Read more
LONGLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE FOR FICTION 2016
Placing itself perfectly alongside acclaimed work by Philipp Meyer, Jane Smiley and JM 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 ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Ltd
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
Number of Pages
272
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781471152238
SKU
V9781471152238
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About Virginia Reeves
Virginia Reeves is a graduate of the Michener Center for Writers at the University of Texas in Austin. Her fiction has appeared in The Common and The Baltimore Review and has been shortlisted for the Tennessee Williams Fiction Contest and the Alexander Patterson Cappon Fiction Award. Virginia has spent the majority of her life in Montana, but ... Read more
Reviews for Work Like Any Other: Longlisted for the Man Booker Prize
"A striking debut about love and redemption, the heavy burdens of family and guilt and learning how to escape them. Powerfully told and lyrically written, there is not a false note in this book. Reeves is a major new talent."
Philipp Meyer, author of The Son "Work Like Any Other is an exceptional novel told in clear, direct, and ... Read more
Philipp Meyer, author of The Son "Work Like Any Other is an exceptional novel told in clear, direct, and ... Read more