description:  Baker Towers is an intimate exploration of love and family set in a western Pennsylvania coal town in the years following World War II.Bakerton is a town of company houses and church festivals, union squabbles and firemen's parades. Its ball club leads the coal company leagues. Its neighborhoods are Little Italy, Swedetown and Polish Hill.Baker Towers is both a family saga and a love letter to our industrial past, to the men and women known as the Greatest Generation; to the vibrant small–town life of America's Rust Belt when it was still shiny and new.
language: English
title: Baker Towers
titlecomplete: Baker Towers
genres: Audiobook, Historical, Historical Fiction, Literary Fiction, Novels, Adult Fiction, Adult, Family, Fiction, Contemporary
ratings_count: 4797
places: Pennsylvania
awards: awardedAt: 1136102400000
name: Laurence L. & Thomas Winship/PEN New England Award
category: Fiction
publisher: HarperAudio