Watershed : a novel / Mark Barr.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Barr, Mark, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Engineers--United States--Fiction.

Engineers.

Single mothers--United States--Fiction.

Single mothers.

Dams--Tennessee--Design and construction--Fiction.

Dams.

Man-woman relationships--Fiction.

Man-woman relationships.

Manners and customs.

Electrification.

History.

Small cities.

Tennessee.

United States.

Small cities--Tennessee--Fiction.

Electrification--Tennessee--History--Fiction.

Tennessee--Social life and customs--20th century--Fiction.

Genre:

Fiction.

Historical fiction.

Novels.

Physical Description:

307 pages ; 23 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Spartanburg, SC : Hub City Press, [2019]

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.

ISBN:

9781938235597

1938235592

OCLC:

1081336491

Publisher Number:

99983601861