Watershed : a novel
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Watershed : a novel
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- Label
- Watershed : a novel
- 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.
- Cataloging source
- DLC
- Dewey number
- 813/.6
- Index
- no index present
- Literary form
- novels
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