num_pages: 368
description: Bakerton is a community of company houses and church festivals, of union squabbles and firemen's parades. Its neighborhoods include Little Italy, Swedetown, and Polish Hill. For its tight-knit citizens -- and the five children of the Novak family -- the 1940s will be a decade of excitement, tragedy, and stunning change. 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 to the men and women we now call the Greatest Generation. It is a feat of imagination from an extraordinary voice in American fiction, a writer of enormous power and skill.
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: Harper Perennial