Baker Towers
By Jennifer Haigh
(Harper Perennial, Paperback, 9780060509422, 368pp.)
Publication Date: February 2006
Other Editions of This Title: Google eBook, Hardcover
Categories: Historical - General, Sagas
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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.
Jennifer Haigh is the author of the New York Times bestsellers The Condition; Baker Towers, winner of the 2006 PEN/L.L. Winship Award for outstanding book by a New England author; and Mrs. Kimble, which won the PEN/Hemingway Award for debut fiction. Her short stories have appeared in the Atlantic, Granta, the Saturday Evening Post, and many other publications. She lives in the Boston area.
“[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
“A work that is quickly boosting [Haigh’s] ascension to the vanguard of 21st century American novelists.”
-Patriot Ledger (Quincy, MA)
“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
“A good old-fashioned read... the author deftly evokes the particulars of a time and place.”
-Daily News
“An elegant, elegiac multigenerational saga. . . . Almost mythic in its ambition, somewhere between Oates and Updike country, and thoroughly satisfying.”
-Kirkus Reviews, starred review
“In clean, authoritative prose, Haigh uncannily injects new life into an era too often entombed by nostalgia.”
-Entertainment Weekly
“Haigh’s writing is rich and mellifluous, and her story certainly has an old-fashioned charm and dignity to it.”
-The Times (London)
“Terrific.”
-Harlan Coben, The Birmingham News
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