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News from Heaven: The Bakerton Stories
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Author:
Jennifer Haigh
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HarperCollins 2013
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Street Date:
02/05/2013
Language:
English
ISBN:
9780062097385
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Fiction
Literature
Short Stories
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Jennifer Haigh. (2013). News from Heaven: The Bakerton Stories. HarperCollins.

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Jennifer Haigh. 2013. News From Heaven: The Bakerton Stories. HarperCollins.

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Jennifer Haigh, News From Heaven: The Bakerton Stories. HarperCollins, 2013.

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Jennifer Haigh. News From Heaven: The Bakerton Stories. HarperCollins, 2013. Web.

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        Jennifer Haigh is the author of the short-story collection News from Heaven and four critically acclaimed novels: Faith, The Condition, Baker Towers, and Mrs. Kimble. Her books have won both the PEN/Hemingway Award for debut fiction and the PEN/L.L. Winship Award for work by a New England writer. Her short fiction has been published widely, in The Atlantic, Granta, The Best American Short Stories, and many other places. She lives in Boston.

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In News from Heaven, Jennifer Haigh—bestselling author of Faith and The Condition—returns to the territory of her acclaimed novel Baker Towers with a collection of short stories set in and around the fictionalized coal-mining town of Bakerton, Pennsylvania.

Exploring themes of restlessness, regret, redemption and acceptance, Jennifer Haigh depicts men and women of different generations shaped by dreams and haunted by disappointments.

Janet Maslin of the New York Times has called Haigh's Bakerton stories "utterly, entrancingly alive on the page," comparable to Richard Russo's Empire Falls.

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Exploring themes of restlessness, regret, redemption and acceptance, Jennifer Haigh depicts men and women of different generations shaped by dreams and haunted by disappointments.

Janet Maslin of the New York Times has called Haigh's Bakerton stories "utterly, entrancingly alive on the page," comparable to Richard Russo's Empire Falls.

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