Description
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.
Product Details
| Publisher | Harper Perennial |
| Publish Date | December 27, 2005 |
| Pages | 368 |
| Language | English |
| Type |  Paperback / softback |
| EAN/UPC | 9780060509422 |
| Dimensions | 8.0 X 5.3 X 0.8 inches | 9.8 pounds |
About the Author
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.
Reviews
“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)
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