In 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.
Born and raised on Bakerton's Polish Hill, the five Novak children come of age during wartime, a thrilling era when the world seems on the verge of changing forever. The oldest, Georgie, serves on a minesweeper in the South Pacific and glimpses life beyond Bakerton, a promising future he is determined to secure at all costs. His sister Dorothy takes a job in Washington, D.C., and finds she is unprepared for city life. Brilliant Joyce becomes the family's keystone, bitterly aware of the opportunities she might have had elsewhere. Sandy sails through life on his looks and charm, and Lucy, the volatile baby, devours the family's attention and develops a bottomless appetite for love.
Baker Towers is a family saga and a love story, a hymn to a time and place long gone, to America's industrial past and the men and women we now call the Greatest Generation. This is a feat of imagination from an extraordinary new voice in American fiction, a writer of enormous power and skill.
Performed by Anna Fields
© 2005 HarperAudio (Ljudbok): 9780060829155
Utgivningsdatum
Ljudbok: 4 januari 2005
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In 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.
Born and raised on Bakerton's Polish Hill, the five Novak children come of age during wartime, a thrilling era when the world seems on the verge of changing forever. The oldest, Georgie, serves on a minesweeper in the South Pacific and glimpses life beyond Bakerton, a promising future he is determined to secure at all costs. His sister Dorothy takes a job in Washington, D.C., and finds she is unprepared for city life. Brilliant Joyce becomes the family's keystone, bitterly aware of the opportunities she might have had elsewhere. Sandy sails through life on his looks and charm, and Lucy, the volatile baby, devours the family's attention and develops a bottomless appetite for love.
Baker Towers is a family saga and a love story, a hymn to a time and place long gone, to America's industrial past and the men and women we now call the Greatest Generation. This is a feat of imagination from an extraordinary new voice in American fiction, a writer of enormous power and skill.
Performed by Anna Fields
© 2005 HarperAudio (Ljudbok): 9780060829155
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Agneta @bibbloagneta
19 maj 2023
En helt fantastisk familjekrönika med kvinnorna i familjen Novak i fokus. Vi får följa den nyblivna änkan, italienska Rose och hennes fem barn från 1944 till -70-talet. Äldste sonen är inkallad i flottan och yngsta dottern Lucy är nyfödd när deras pappa, Roses man oväntat dör. De bor alla i en gruvstad i Pennsylvania och Jennifer Haigh skriver fram dem en efter en. Förutom George och Lucy har vi Joyce, Dorothy och Sandy. Jag är oerhört förtjust i Jennifer Haighs sätt att skriva. Tycker du om Anne Tyler och Elizabeth Buchan är Jennifer Haigh ett självklart val. Utmärkt uppläst av Anna Fields. @bibbloagneta
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