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News from heaven : the Bakerton stories / Jennifer Haigh. |
| Authors: | Haigh, Jennifer, 1968- |
| Call number: | FIC HAI |
| Publisher: | New York : HarperCollins, c2013. |
| Publication date: | c2013. |
| Subject: |
Coal mines and mining -- Fiction.
Short stories. Pennsylvania -- Fiction. |
| Title: | News from heaven : the Bakerton stories / Jennifer Haigh. |
| Edition: | 1st ed. |
| Physical description: | 244 p. ; 24 cm. |
| Contents note: | Beast and bird -- Something sweet -- Broken star -- A place in the sun -- To the stars -- Thrift -- Favorite son -- The bottom of things -- What remains -- Desiderata. |
| Summary note: | 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. |
| Genre: | Domestic fiction. |
| ISBN: | 9780060889647 0060889640 |
| Url for this record: | http://sherloc.imcpl.org/?itemid=|library/marc/dynix|1422072 |
| Bib No.: | 1422072 |