num_pages: 224
description: After being laid off by Lamel Steel, forty-year-old Baltimorean Red Baker seeks solace in booze and illicit sex before his passionate vitality and capacity for loyalty and love redeem him and enable him to start again. Winner of the PEN West Prize for Best Novel. Reprint. 15,000 first printing.
language: English
title: Red Baker
titlecomplete: Red Baker
genres: Fiction, Literary Fiction, Contemporary, Mystery
ratings_count: 169
publisher: Minotaur Books