WORK LIKE ANY OTHER

Book ID/图书代码： 11701214B74308

English Summary/英文概要： Would you mind confirming safe receipt of this email and typescript? Also, I had a meeting with Eric Zhong of Shanghai 99 in Frankfurt and he sounded interested in considering it and so I would be grateful if you would kindly include him in your Chinese submissions. Thank you.

We feel that this is an extremely strong debut and it has received wonderful quotes from Philipp Meyer, Kevin Powers and Fiona McFarlane (please see below).

Set in rural Alabama in the 1920s, Work Like Any Other follows white landowner Roscoe T. Martin from electrician to reluctant farmer to nine-year inmate of Kilby Prison. In an ill-fated attempt to save the family farm, Roscoe enlists his black farmhand, Wilson, to help him illegally siphon electricity from Alabama Power. After years of success, their work ends abruptly with the unintentional death of an electrical lineman. Consumed with guilt over Wilson’s condemnation to the coal mines and abandoned by his wife and son, Roscoe finds it difficult to adjust to life in prison, a life full of ridicule and violence. He develops few friendships and takes on a variety of unfamiliar jobs, the likes of Bible reader, dairy hand, and "dog boy." Upon his release, Roscoe goes in search of his former life, only to find that none of it remains. Having again lost his identity, Roscoe must determine where he belongs, and why. Work Like Any Other is an affecting trial of dispossession, injustice, and regret that explores the lengths to which the broken among us push forward.

Chinese Summary/中文概要： 故事发生在20世纪20年代的阿拉巴马农村，《如他人般工作》讲述了白人地主罗斯科•T•马丁从电气师到不甚情愿的农民，再到9岁孩童吉尔比•普利森的挚友的故事。师徒拯救家庭农场却厄运连连，罗斯科获得了自己黑人雇员威尔森的帮助，非法地从阿拉巴马供电公司偷电。这一方法成功的实施了多年，却在一名电路工人的意外死亡后突然告终。威尔森被谴责并派往煤矿，他自己则被妻儿抛弃，罗斯科发现想要适应监狱里的生活实在是困难重重，那里简直就是充满了荒谬和暴力的世界。他鲜少有朋友，并从事了多个不甚了解的工作，例如圣经诵读者，挤奶工等。刑满释放后，罗斯科去寻找他先前的生活，却发现一切都已经不复存在。再次失去了自己的身份后，罗斯科必须决定自己的真正归属，以及这一背后的原因。《如他人般工作》是一次强有力的尝试，讲述了有关无所适从，不公正，以及悔恨究竟能推动着支离破碎的我们向前迈进多远的故事。（DC）

Awards/获奖情况：“一部有关于爱与救赎的惊人之作，有关于家的沉重负担，有关于愧疚和学会如何逃离。文风强而有力却又诗般优雅，在本书中，绝无丝毫不谐之音。瑞维斯是一名主流新起之秀。”菲利普•梅尔，作家，著有American Rust and The Son

“《如他人般工作》是一本叙述清晰，直接，并拥有绝美语言的独特小说。弗吉尼亚•瑞维斯拥有在人物，地点与进展的冲突萌生点让一切都鲜活起来的天分与才华。绝对大爱。”凯文•包瓦斯，作家，著有The Yellow Birds

“这本精彩绝伦的小说中所描述的世界---20世纪20年代的阿拉巴马---阅完至今都还萦绕在我的脑海中挥散不去。这本书是圣洁，痛苦并独一无二的，每一处细节都无比真实。瑞维斯用无与伦比的智慧与热情写作，并在Roscoe Martin中塑造了一名超凡绝伦的男子，完全凭借自己的努力为自己在错综复杂的南部赢得了自己的位置。全文充满着恐惧与美，这是一部令人叹为观止的有关于时间，地理和心境的编年纪。”菲奥娜•马克法兰，作家，著有The Night Guest

“A potent mix of icy honesty and heart-wrenching tenderness” Jim Crace

“A striking debut novel about love and redemption… There is not a false note in this book. Reeves is a major new talent.” Philipp Meyer

“WORK LIKE ANY OTHER is an exceptional novel told in clear, direct, and starkly beautiful language. Virginia Reeves has a gift for bringing to life all the tensions that emerge whenever people, place, and progress collide. I absolutely loved it.” Kevin Powers

“How brilliantly Virginia Reeves brings to life her protagonist, Roscoe T Martin, with his hatred of farming, his love of electricity and his long struggle to make amends to himself, his family and his friends. Work Like Any Other is a novel of fierce beauty and hard-won redemption. A wonderful debut.” Margot Livesey, author of The Flight of Gemma Hardy

“Work Like Any Other is a beautifully accomplished first novel. She draws the reader in with such ease, and plumbs the depths of her characters with such acuteness and care, I was totally won over.”James Magnuson, author of The Hounds of Winter

About the Author/作者介绍： 弗吉尼亚•瑞维斯是奥斯汀德克萨斯大学米契纳作家中心的一名研究生。其作品曾被刊登在The Common 和 The Baltimore Review上，并曾荣获田纳西•威廉姆斯小说奖以及亚历山大•帕特森•卡朋小说奖提名。作者大部分时间在蒙塔纳度过，但现与其丈夫以及两个女儿居住在德克萨斯州奥斯汀市。

Virginia Reeves is a graduate of the Michener Center for Writers at the University of Texas at Austin. Her fiction has appeared in The Common and The Baltimore Review and has been short-listed for the Tennessee Williams Fiction Contest and the Alexander Patterson Cappon Fiction Award. She has spent the majority of her life in Montana, but currently lives in Austin, Texas, with her husband and two daughters.

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Rights Status/版权销售情况：Simplified Chinese/简体中文：AVAILABLE

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Sales in other countries/其他国家销售情况：Sold the UK rights to WORK LIKE ANY OTHER by Virginia Reeves to Suzanne Baboneau at Simon & Schuster UK and the Dutch rights to Holland Dieps, Robbert Ammerlaan’s new publishing house.

The rights sold so far are as follows: US: Scribner (Nan Graham); UK: Simon & Schuster (Suzanne Baboneau); France: Editions Stock (Emmanuelle Heurtebize); Holland: Holland Dieps (Robbert Ammerlaan).

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