Author | Jennifer Haigh |
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Language | English |
Genre | Novel |
Publisher | William Morrow |
Publication date | January 4, 2005 |
Publication place | United States |
Media type | Print (hardback & paperback) |
Pages | 488 pp |
ISBN | 0-73-945049-2 |
Baker Towers (2005) is Jennifer Haigh's second novel. It depicts the rise and fall of a western Pennsylvania coal town in the years following World War II. It was a New York Times bestseller and won the 2006 L.L. Winship/PEN New England Award award for best book by a New England writer.[1]
The New York Times called the novel "capitvating" and "a living, breathing organism."[2][3]