Baker Towers

Author:   Jennifer Haigh
Publisher:   HarperCollins Publishers Inc
Edition:   Harper Perennial ed.
ISBN:  

9780060509422


Pages:   368
Publication Date:   01 February 2006
Format:   Paperback
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Bakerton is a community of company houses and church festivals, of union squabbles and firemen's parades. Its neighborhoods include Little Italy, Swedetown, and Polish Hill. For its tight-knit citizens -- and the five children of the Novak family -- the 1940s will be a decade of excitement, tragedy, and stunning change. Baker Towers is a family saga and a love story, a hymn to a time and place long gone, to America's industrial past, and to the men and women we now call the Greatest Generation. It is a feat of imagination from an extraordinary voice in American fiction, a writer of enormous power and skill.

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Author:   Jennifer Haigh
Publisher:   HarperCollins Publishers Inc
Imprint:   Collins
Edition:   Harper Perennial ed.
Dimensions:   Width: 13.50cm , Height: 2.10cm , Length: 20.30cm
Weight:   0.277kg
ISBN:  

9780060509422


ISBN 10:   0060509422
Pages:   368
Publication Date:   01 February 2006
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Out of Stock Indefinitely
Availability:   Awaiting stock   Availability explained

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Jennifer Haigh's ambitious, elegiac second novel, Baker Towers [is]. a rich portrait of place. -- Washington Post Book World


"""The living, breathing organism that is Haigh's captivating book... [is an] effortlessly haunting story... [Haigh is] an expert natural storyteller."" -- New York Times ""Jennifer Haigh's ambitious, elegiac second novel, Baker Towers [is]... a rich portrait of place."" -- Washington Post Book World ""An elegant, elegiac multigenerational saga. . . . Almost mythic in its ambition, somewhere between Oates and Updike country, and thoroughly satisfying."" -- Kirkus Reviews, starred review ""[Haigh] writes convincingly of family and small town relations, as well as of the intractable frustrations of American poverty."" -- Publishers Weekly ""Jennifer Haigh stakes a claim for a major breakout."" -- Publishers Weekly ""In clean, authoritative prose, Haigh uncannily injects new life into an era too often entombed by nostalgia."" -- Entertainment Weekly ""A good old-fashioned read... the author deftly evokes the particulars of a time and place."" -- Daily News ""Terrific."" -- Harlan Coben, The Birmingham News ""Haigh's writing is rich and mellifluous, and her story certainly has an old-fashioned charm and dignity to it."" -- The Times (London) ""A work that is quickly boosting [Haigh's] ascension to the vanguard of 21st century American novelists."" -- Patriot Ledger (Quincy, MA)"


Haigh s writing is rich and mellifluous, and her story certainly has an old-fashioned charm and dignity to it. --The Times (London)


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Jennifer Haigh is the author of the short-story collection News from Heaven and six bestselling and critically acclaimed novels, including Mrs. Kimble, Faith and Heat and Light, which was named a Best Book of 2016 by the New York Times, The Washington Post, the Wall Street Journal and NPR. Her books have won the PEN/Hemingway Award, the Massachusetts Book Award and the PEN New England Award in Fiction, and have been translated widely. She lives in New England.

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