Baker Towers
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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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Jennifer Haigh. (2009). Baker Towers. HarperCollins.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation (style guide)Jennifer Haigh. 2009. Baker Towers. HarperCollins.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities Citation (style guide)Jennifer Haigh, Baker Towers. HarperCollins, 2009.
MLA Citation (style guide)Jennifer Haigh. Baker Towers. HarperCollins, 2009.
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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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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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"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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November 22, 2004
The second novel by the author of the award-winning Mrs. Kimble
depicts life in a postwar Pennsylvania mining town and continues Haigh's exploration of the hardships of women's lives. In the town of Bakerton, dominated by the towers of the title (made of slowly combusting piles of scrap coal), poor families live in ethnic enclaves of company houses. Italian Rose Novak broke with tradition by marrying a Polish man, but he dies in the book's first chapter, and Rose and her five children struggle through the years that follow. The oldest son, Georgie, returns from WWII and avoids the mining life by marrying the posh, cynical daughter of a wealthy Philadelphia store owner. Rose's daughter Dorothy gets a wartime job in glamorous Washington but breaks down and returns to Bakerton, while capable daughter Joyce, who joins the military just as the war ends, comes home to take care of her ailing mother, resenting Georgie and Sandy, the handsome youngest brother, who escape town. Only Rose and Lucy, the awkward youngest daughter, are content with things as they are. The story climaxes with a disaster at the mine, which affects each of the Novak children. Haigh's prose never soars, but she writes convincingly of family and smalltown relations, as well as of the intractable frustrations of American poverty. Agent, Dorian Karchmar. (Jan. 4)
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Strong publisher support, a 25-city author tour and Haigh's solid storytelling could make this a big seller.
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