The Resource Watershed : a novel, Mark Barr
Watershed : a novel, Mark Barr
Resource Information
The item Watershed : a novel, Mark Barr represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Austin Public Library.This item is available to borrow from 6 library branches. This resource has been enriched with EBSCO NoveList data.
Resource Information
The item Watershed : a novel, Mark Barr represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Austin Public Library.
This item is available to borrow from 6 library branches.
This resource has been enriched with EBSCO NoveList data.
- 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
- Language
- eng
- Edition
- First edition.
- Extent
- 307 pages
- Isbn
- 9781938235597
- Label
- Watershed : a novel
- Title
- Watershed
- Title remainder
- a novel
- Statement of responsibility
- Mark Barr
- Subject
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- trueSmall towns
- trueSelf-confidence in women
- Single mothers
- Single mothers -- United States -- Fiction
- Small cities
- Small cities -- Tennessee -- Fiction
- trueSouthern States
- trueTennessee
- Tennessee
- Tennessee -- Social life and customs -- 20th century -- Fiction
- United States
- 1900-1999
- trueAmbition in men
- trueDams
- trueDams -- Design and construction
- Dams -- Design and construction
- Dams -- Tennessee -- Design and construction -- Fiction
- trueDepressions -- 1929-1941
- trueDepressions, 1929-1941
- trueDesign and construction
- trueElectricity
- Electrification
- Electrification -- Tennessee -- History -- Fiction
- trueEngineers
- Engineers
- Engineers -- United States -- Fiction
- FICTION / Historical
- Fiction
- trueGuilt
- Historical fiction
- Historical fiction
- History
- trueHomemakers
- Man-woman relationships
- Man-woman relationships -- Fiction
- Manners and customs
- trueSecrets
- Language
- eng
- 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
- Award
- David J. Langum, Sr. Prize in American Historical Fiction, 2019.
- http://library.link/vocab/ext/novelist/bookUI
- 10817142
- Cataloging source
- DLC
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Barr, Mark
- Dewey number
- 813/.6
- Index
- no index present
- Literary form
- novels
- http://library.link/vocab/resourcePreferred
- True
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- Engineers
- Single mothers
- Dams
- Man-woman relationships
- Small cities
- Electrification
- Tennessee
- FICTION / Historical
- Dams
- Electrification
- Engineers
- Man-woman relationships
- Manners and customs
- Single mothers
- Small cities
- Tennessee
- United States
- Label
- Watershed : a novel, Mark Barr
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
-
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
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- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Control code
- on1081336491
- Dimensions
- 23 cm
- Edition
- First edition.
- Extent
- 307 pages
- Isbn
- 9781938235597
- Lccn
- 2018060607
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
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- n
- System control number
- (OCoLC)1081336491
- Label
- Watershed : a novel, Mark Barr
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
-
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Control code
- on1081336491
- Dimensions
- 23 cm
- Edition
- First edition.
- Extent
- 307 pages
- Isbn
- 9781938235597
- Lccn
- 2018060607
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- n
- System control number
- (OCoLC)1081336491
Subject
- trueSmall towns
- trueSelf-confidence in women
- Single mothers
- Single mothers -- United States -- Fiction
- Small cities
- Small cities -- Tennessee -- Fiction
- trueSouthern States
- trueTennessee
- Tennessee
- Tennessee -- Social life and customs -- 20th century -- Fiction
- United States
- 1900-1999
- trueAmbition in men
- trueDams
- trueDams -- Design and construction
- Dams -- Design and construction
- Dams -- Tennessee -- Design and construction -- Fiction
- trueDepressions -- 1929-1941
- trueDepressions, 1929-1941
- trueDesign and construction
- trueElectricity
- Electrification
- Electrification -- Tennessee -- History -- Fiction
- trueEngineers
- Engineers
- Engineers -- United States -- Fiction
- FICTION / Historical
- Fiction
- trueGuilt
- Historical fiction
- Historical fiction
- History
- trueHomemakers
- Man-woman relationships
- Man-woman relationships -- Fiction
- Manners and customs
- trueSecrets
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