num_pages: 262
description: Roscoe T Martin set his sights on a new type of power spreading at the start of the twentieth century: electricity. It became his training his lifes work. But when his wife Marie inherits her fathers failing farm Roscoe has to give up his livelihood with great cost to his sense of self his marriage and his family. Realizing he might lose them all if he doesnt do something he begins to use his skills as an electrician to siphon energy from the state ushering in a period of bounty and happiness. Even the love of Marie and their child seem back within Roscoes grasp.Then a young man working for the state power company stumbles on Roscoes illegal lines and is electrocuted and everything changes: Roscoe is arrested; the farm once more starts to deteriorate; and Marie abandons her husband leaving him to face his twenty-year sentence alone. Now an unmoored Roscoe must carve out a place at Kilby Prison. Climbing the ranks of the incarcerated from dairy hand to librarian to dog boy an inmate who helps the guards track down escapees he is ultimately forced to ask himself once more if his work is just that or if the price of his crimesfor him and his familyis greater than he ever let himself believe.
language: English
title: Work Like Any Other
publisher: Scribner