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Virginia Reeves

    Virginia Reeves je spisovateľka a učiteľka. Po absolvovaní Michener Center for Writers bola jej debutová kniha dlho zaradená do užšieho výberu na Cenu za prvý román od Centra pre fikciu a na Man Bookerovu cenu. Kniha ju tiež zaradila medzi 10 najlepších prvých románov roka 2016. Vo svojom debutovom diele sa autorka ponára do zložitých medziľudských vzťahov a skúma ľudskú kondíciu.

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    Work Like Any Other
    • Work Like Any Other

      • 176 stránok
      • 7 hodin čítania

      1920s Alabama. Roscoe T. Martin is fascinated by this new force spreading across the county--electricity. But with the banks getting ever tighter his wife, Marie, needs him to help run her family's farm. But he is no farmer and, year after year, the earth betrays them. Then he hits upon and idea to save himself, the farm, and his marriage! He sets about a project to siphon electricity from Alabama power via the overhead cables which run along the perimeter of the farm. It's a scam that works perfectly well until a young man working for the power company is electrocuted and killed on Roscoe's illegal lines and Roscoe is arrested...The cell of a penitentiary, the decomposition of a marriage, the ruthless land that makes this a humanist fable that still resonates today, all wonderfully portrayed by Alex W. Inker's brutally delicate art.

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