· Work Like Any Other. Written by Virginia Reeves. A man’s life spirals out of control in Virginia Reeves’ deeply affecting story of dispossession, injustice and redemption, set in s rural Alabama. When his scam to syphon electricity from the state goes tragically wrong, Roscoe, an electrician turned farmer, finds his whole life collapsing around him. I had stared at those bulbs the first time I saw them, the streets lit by a force greater than any I’d known—bigger than me, bigger than my father, bigger than his Author: Virginia Reeves. · Work Like Any Other is a novel of fierce beauty and hard-won redemption. A wonderful debut. Margot Livesey "Reeves’s novel, with its strong sense of time and place and its interrelating cast of inmates and guards, calls to mind those Stephen King books set in prisons, The Green Mile and The Shawshank Redemption, that were adapted into films. But it is Paul Harding’s Pulitzer prize-winning Brand: Scribner.
Such is the case with Work Like Any Other. Author Virginia Reeves has delivered a commanding, dramatic novel of life in s Alabama, inside a family torn apart by anger, resentment, shame, guilt, and desire. This is a deeply gripping portrayal of Americana in the Deep South, replete with racism, violence, and heartbreak. It is astonishingly. 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). ― Virginia Reeves, Work Like Any Other. 0 likes. Like "We are born with some things in our veins, coal for my father and farming for Marie's and a deep electrical current for me. My father's draw started from need, I suppose, and Marie's father's from land, and mine from glowing Birmingham streetlamps. I had stared at those bulbs.
Work Like Any Other. Work Like Any Other is a debut novel by Virginia Reeves. Set in s, it narrates the story of a poor electrician who siphons energy from his town's electricity source to save his family from poverty. In July the book was longlisted for the Man Booker Prize. Work Like Any Other by Virginia Reeves is a novel detailing the lives of the Martin family in s Alabama. Roscoe Martin, his wife Marie, and Gerald, their only child, live on Marie's inherited farm and are barely making ends meet. The Wilson's, a black family, also live on the farm existing almost as sharecroppers to the Martin family. Work like Any Other. Virginia Reeves. Scribner, $25 (p) ISBN In Reeves's thoughtful, absorbing debut set in s Alabama, Roscoe leaves his dream job as an electrician with.
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