Baker Towers: A Novel
- ISBN-10
- 0061738662
- ISBN-13
- 9780061738661
- Category
- Fiction
- Pages
- 368
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2009-03-17
- Publisher
- Harper Collins
- Author
- Jennifer Haigh
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.
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