Watershed, a novel, Mark Barr
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Watershed, a novel, Mark Barr
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eng
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no index present
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fiction
Main title
Watershed
Oclc number
1081336491
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Mark Barr
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a novel
Summary
Amidst construction of a federal dam in rural Tennessee, Nathan, an engineer hiding from his past, meets Claire, a small-town housewife struggling to find her footing in the newly-electrified, job-hungry, post-Depression South. As Nathan wrestles with the burdens of a secret guilt and tangled love, Claire struggles to balance motherhood and a newfound freedom that awakens ambitions and a sexuality she hadn't known she possessed. The arrival of electricity in the rural community, where prostitution and dog-fighting are commonplace, thrusts together modern and backcountry values. In an evocative feat of storytelling in the vein of Kent Haruf's Plainsong, and Ron Rash's Serena, Watershed delivers a gripping story of characters whose ambitions and yearnings threaten to overflow the banks of their time and place. As the townspeople embark on a biblical undertaking to harness elemental forces, Nathan and Claire are left to wonder what their lives will look like when the lights come on
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- Engineers -- United States -- Fiction
- Man-woman relationships -- Fiction
- Electrification -- Tennessee -- History -- Fiction
- Historical fiction
- Single mothers -- United States -- Fiction
- Small cities -- Tennessee -- Fiction
- Tennessee -- Social life and customs -- 20th century -- Fiction
- Dams -- Tennessee -- Design and construction -- Fiction
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- Engineers -- United States -- Fiction
- Man-woman relationships -- Fiction
- Electrification -- Tennessee -- History -- Fiction
- Historical fiction
- Single mothers -- United States -- Fiction
- Small cities -- Tennessee -- Fiction
- Tennessee -- Social life and customs -- 20th century -- Fiction
- Dams -- Tennessee -- Design and construction -- Fiction
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