News from Heaven: The Bakerton Stories (P.S.) - Softcover

Haigh, Jennifer

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0060889632 ISBN 13: 9780060889630

Publisher: Harper Perennial, 2014

Synopsis

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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Review:

"An uplifting and radiant book."--Janet Maslin, "New York Times"

"A vibrant, thought-provoking, profoundly readable contribution to the genre. . . . Each of these ten linked stories represents a distinct, shining example of Haigh's remarkable gifts for lyricism, psychological insight, and stealth humor."--Boston Globe

"Outstanding... "News From Heaven" fits quite comfortably in the company of the hybrid novel-in-stories made so popular by predecessors such as Jhumpa Lahiri...and Elizabeth Strout...For Haigh, this small town is a large canvas, one filled in with precise, poignant strokes."--"Washington Post"

"The characters in Jennifer Haigh's NEWS FROM HEAVEN are so vividly drawn, the inner lives revealed so deftly, with such intelligence and sympathy, that fictional Bakerton, Pennsylvania, takes on the additional weight of, say, Winesburg, Ohio."--Richard Russo, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Empire Falls

"Jennifer Haigh has accomplished what James Joyce did in Dubliners and Sherwood Anderson in Winesburg, Ohio: render a place with such exactitude the landscape, character, and fate are inextricably linked. One of America's finest novelists, Haigh is now one of our finest short story writers as well."--bestselling author Ron Rash

An uplifting and radiant book. --Janet Maslin, "New York Times""

Elegant stories. . . . Haigh uses well-timed plot twists to infuse them with bright new energy. --"People""

A vibrant, thought-provoking, profoundly readable contribution to the genre. . . . Each of these ten linked stories represents a distinct, shining example of Haigh s remarkable gifts for lyricism, psychological insight, and stealth humor. --Boston Globe"

Outstanding "News From Heaven" fits quite comfortably in the company of the hybrid novel-in-stories made so popular by predecessors such as Jhumpa Lahiri and Elizabeth Strout For Haigh, this small town is a large canvas, one filled in with precise, poignant strokes. --"Washington Post""

Haigh has a fine eye for how time works on characters theories about themselves . Haigh, whose first book won the PEN/Hemingway Award, has a sure grip on her characters and a belief in place as a determining factor in the shapes of our lives. --"New York Times Book Review""

From the Back Cover:

Jennifer Haigh returns to the vividly imagined world of Bakerton, Pennsylvania, a coal-mining town that has been 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 succeeding generations to the place that made them. With a revolving cast of characters, these stories explore how our roots--the families and places in which we are raised--shape the people we eventually become.

About this edition

• Publisher: Harper Perennial
• Publication date: 2014
• ISBN 10: 0060889632
• ISBN 13: 9780060889630
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 288