Baker Towers Explained

Baker Towers
Author:	Jennifer Haigh
Country:	United States
Language:	English
Genre:	Novel
Publisher:	William Morrow
Release Date:	January 4, 2005
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]

Reviews

The New York Times called the novel "capitvating" and "a living, breathing organism."^{[2] [3]}

References

1. Web site: JFK Presidential Library to Host 2006 Hemingway/PEN and L.L. Winship/PEN New England Literary Awards | JFK Library. 2022-01-28. www.jfklibrary.org.
2. Web site: Women Trying to Find Their Way in a Dying Coal Town. The New York Times. 2022-01-28.
3. Web site: Jennifer Haigh. 2022-01-28. HarperCollins Speakers Bureau. en-US.