Work Like Any Other : A Novel (Hardcover)

from kidzdoc

This historical novel set in rural central Alabama in the 1920s and 1930s begins with tragedy, as the reader learns that a man has been killed close to a farm where Roscoe Martin lives with his wife Marie, who inherited the land after the death of her father, and their son Gerald. The farm is str...

from EBT1002

Roscoe T Martin is an electrician who feels lost working on his wife's inherited farm. It's Alabama in the 1920s and Roscoe comes up with the brilliant idea of bringing electricity to the farm from the wires that Alabama Power has passing right along the edge of one of their fields. It will be hi...

from lit_chick

1920s Alabama: Roscoe T Martin's life work, training, and passion is electricity. But when his wife Marie inherits the family farm from her late father, he gives up his livelihood - at great cost to himself, his marriage, and his family. Roscoe is not a farmer - in fact, he resents the farm and a...

from hubblegal

This book had a huge impact on me. I was completely spellbound by this story of a man who I felt was unjustly accused of manslaughter. Roscoe Martin was an electrician by trade but left his field to try to work on his wife's family farm. The work didn't suit him and caused difficulties in his mar...

from lostinalibrary

It is the 1920s in Alabama and Roscoe T. Martin loves working for the power company, stringing lines to bring electricity into homes and factories. However, when his father-in-law dies, his wife, Marie, convinces him to give this up and take over her family's farm. Things are not going well until...