{"product_id":"9781471152238-work-like-any-other","title":"Work Like Any Other","description":"\u003cmeta content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\" http-equiv=\"Content-Type\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eLonglisted for the Man Booker Prize\u003cbr\u003eFrom 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLONGLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE FOR FICTION 2016\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 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.\u003cbr\u003e      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.\u003cbr\u003e     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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e '\u003cb\u003eGorgeously spare and brilliantly insightful\u003c\/b\u003e, \u003ci\u003eWork Like Any Other\u003c\/i\u003e is a striking debut about love and redemption, the heavy burdens of family and guilt, and learning how to escape them . Virginia Reeves is \u003cb\u003ea major new talent\u003c\/b\u003e' \u003cb\u003ePhilipp Meyer\u003c\/b\u003e, bestselling author of \u003ci\u003eThe Son\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 'An \u003cb\u003eexceptional\u003c\/b\u003e novel . I absolutely loved it' \u003cb\u003eKevin Powers\u003c\/b\u003e, author of\u003ci\u003e The Yellow Birds\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e '\u003cb\u003eAssured and absorbing\u003c\/b\u003e . a potent mix of icy honesty and \u003cb\u003eheart-wrenching\u003c\/b\u003e tenderness' \u003cb\u003eJim Crace\u003c\/b\u003e, author of \u003ci\u003eHarvest\u003c\/i\u003e and\u003ci\u003e Being Dead\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rarewaves","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57535810732406,"sku":"9781471152238","price":6.75,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0092\/7504\/8033\/files\/stand_31850712.jpg?v=1774283313","url":"https:\/\/www.rarewaves.com\/products\/9781471152238-work-like-any-other","provider":"Rarewaves.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}