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Work Like Any Other by Virginia Reeves

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Work Like Any Other

Author
Virginia Reeves
Narrator
Jeff Harding
Publisher
W. F. Howes Ltd
Publish Date
18 August 2016
Run Time
9 hours 45 minutes
Format
Audiobook
Genre
Fiction: general and literary

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Roscoe has set his sights on a new type of power spreading at the start of the 20th century: electricity. But when his wife Marie inherits her father's failing farm, Roscoe uses his skills as an electrician to siphon energy from the state, ushering in a period of bounty and happiness. Then everything changes. A young man is electrocuted on their land. Roscoe is arrested for manslaughter and he must now carve out a place in a violent new world.

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Author
Virginia Reeves
Narrator
Jeff Harding
Duration
9 hours 45 minutes
Release Date
18 August 2016
ISBN
9781510046078
Format
Audiobook
Publisher
W. F. Howes Ltd
Genre
Fiction: general and literary

Synopsis

Roscoe has set his sights on a new type of power spreading at the start of the 20th century: electricity. But when his wife Marie inherits her father's failing farm, Roscoe uses his skills as an electrician to siphon energy from the state, ushering in a period of bounty and happiness. Then everything changes. A young man is electrocuted on their land. Roscoe is arrested for manslaughter and he must now carve out a place in a violent new world.

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