Baker Towers

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Product Details
Price
$14.99
Publisher
Harper Perennial
Publish Date
Pages
368
Dimensions
5.3 X 7.9 X 1.0 inches | 0.5 pounds
Language
English
Type
Paperback
EAN/UPC
9780062262882

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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)