Publisher | Berkley Books |
ISBN 13 | 9780425195475 |
ISBN 10 | 1250219353 |
Author | Nora Roberts, J D Robb |
Book Format | Paperback |
Language | English |
Book Description | Set in 1937 in rural Tennessee, with the construction of a monumental dam serving as background--a cinematically biblical effort to harness elemental forces and bring power to the people--Watershed delivers a gripping story of characters whose ambitions and yearnings threaten to overflow the banks of their time and place. Nathan, an engineer hiding from his past, and Claire, a small-town housewife, struggle to find their 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 a... |
About the Author | Mark Barr's vivid and heartfelt Watershed is the most engrossing and assured debut I've read in a long, long time. The building of the hydroelectric dam in 1937 Tennessee isn't the backdrop in this riveting story--it drives everything. A hydroelectric dam engineer running from his past. A Tennessee housewife running toward a new life. You watch a countryside, a people, transformed. The dam truly brings so much more than electricity. Watershed will leave you charged and enlightened. Mark Barr is a powerhouse.--Smith Henderson, author of Fourth of July Creek Watershed is a novel about change in many forms--personal, technological, and societal--and it handles them all with aplomb. A quintessentially American story of inv... |
Publication Date | 1-Apr-04 |
Number of Pages | 512 |