First UK edition, hardcover, has a tiny lean to the binding, a hint of bowing to the covers, and very light bumps to spine ends and cover corners, otherwise a solid, tight VG+ copy in a like unclipped dust jacket, which has mild bumps to spine ends and corners, and a hint of faint edgewear. Jacket is wrapped in a removable Mylar cover.

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Bibliographic Details

Title

Work Like Any Other

Publisher

Scribner (Simon & Schuster UK Ltd), London

Publication Date

2016

Language

English

ISBN 10

1471152219

ISBN 13

9781471152214

Binding

Hardcover

Edition

1st UK Edition.

Condition

Very Good+

Dust Jacket Condition

Very Good+

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Synopsis

LONGLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE FOR FICTION 2016 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.

About the Author

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 currently lives in Austin, Texas, with her husband and two daughters.

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