News from Heaven: The Bakerton Stories Hardcover - 2013
by Jennifer Haigh
The bestselling author of "Faith" and "The Condition" returns to the territory of her acclaimed Baker Towers with a collection of new short stories, centered around the fictionalized coal mining town of Bakerton, Pennsylvania.
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The bestselling author of Faith and The Condition returns with a collection of unforgettable short stories inspired by a Pennsylvania coal-mining town and the people who call it home.
When her iconic novel Baker Towers was published in 2005, it was hailed as a modern classic--"compassionate and powerful . . . a song of praise for a too-little-praised part of America, for the working families whose toils and constancy have done so much to make the country great" (Chicago Tribune). Its young author, Jennifer Haigh, was "an expert natural storyteller with an acute sense of her characters' humanity" (New York Times).
Now, in this collection of interconnected short stories, Jennifer Haigh returns to the vividly imagined world of Bakerton, Pennsylvania, a coal-mining town rocked by decades of painful transition. From its heyday during two world wars through its slow decline, Bakerton is a town that refuses to give up gracefully, binding--sometimes cruelly--succeeding generations to the place that made them. A young woman glimpses a world both strange and familiar when she becomes a live-in maid for a Jewish family in New York City. A long-absent brother makes a sudden and tragic homecoming. A solitary middle-aged woman tastes unexpected love when a young man returns to town. With a revolving cast of characters--many familiar to fans of Baker Towers--these stories explore how our roots, the families and places in which we are raised, shape the people we eventually become.
News from Heaven looks unflinchingly at the conflicting human desires for escape and for connection, and explores the enduring hold of home.
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- Title News from Heaven: The Bakerton Stories
- Author Jennifer Haigh
- Binding Hardcover
- Edition First Edition
- Pages 256
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Harper, U.S.A.
- Date 2013-01
- ISBN 9780060889647 / 0060889640
- Weight 0.85 lbs (0.39 kg)
- Dimensions 9.1 x 6.3 x 1.2 in (23.11 x 16.00 x 3.05 cm)
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Themes
- Topical: Family
- Library of Congress subjects Domestic fiction, Short stories
- Dewey Decimal Code FIC
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Citations
- Booklist, 01/01/2013, Page 36
- Christian Century, 04/17/2013, Page 40
- Kirkus Reviews, 12/01/2012, Page 0
- Library Journal, 02/01/2013, Page 64
- Library Journal Prepub Alert, 09/15/2012, Page 47
- New York Times Book Review, 05/12/2013, Page 34
- People Weekly, 02/04/2013, Page 52
- Publishers Weekly, 01/21/2013, Page 0
- Shelf Awareness, 02/01/2013, Page 0
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