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News from heaven the Bakerton stories

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...

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Main Author: Haigh, Jennifer, 1968-
Format: Books Print Book
Language:English
Published: New York : HarperCollins, c2013.
Edition:1st ed.
Subjects:
Coal mines and mining > Fiction.
Pennsylvania > Fiction.
Short stories.
Domestic fiction > Pennsylvania.
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Summary: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.
Physical Description:244 p. ; 24 cm.
ISBN:9780060889647
0060889640
Author Notes:Jennifer Haigh was born in Barnesboro, Pennsylvania. She attended Dickinson College in Carlisle, Pennsylvania and earned a Master of Fine Arts degree from the Iowa Writers' Workshop in 2002. Her novel, Mrs. Kimble, won the PEN/Hemingway Award for outstanding debut fiction in 2003. Her other works include Baker Towers, which won the 2006 PEN/L. L. Winship Award for outstanding book by a New England author, The Condition, and Faith.

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