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E-Book Extras: ONE: An Interview with Jennifer Haigh; TWO: Reading Group Guide. A stunning follow-up to her bestselling debut, Mrs. Kimble, Jennifer Haigh returns with Baker Towers, a compelling story of love and loss in a western Pennsylvania mining town in the years after World War II. Bakerton is a company town built on coal, a town of church festivals and ethnic neighborhoods, hunters' breakfasts and firemen's parades. Its children are raised in company houses -- three rooms upstairs, three rooms downstairs. Its ball club leads the coal company league. The twelve Baker mines offer good…
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16 editions · 2 languages- Audiobook · English · 2005Baker Towers CDHarperAudio · 9780060759506
- Paperback · English · 2005Harper Perennial · 368 pages · 9780060509422
- Ebook · English · 2005HarperCollins · 9780060815974
- Other · English · 2018Harpercollins · 1 pages · 9781538590027
- Other · English · 2013HarperCollins Publishers · 354 pages · 9780062262882
- Other · English · 2006HarperCollins Publishers Limited · 400 pages · 9780007150878
FictionCoal mines and miningCity and town lifeBrothers and sistersFamilyPolish AmericansLarge type booksPennsylvania, fiction