News from heaven
Subtitle: the Bakerton stories
By: Jennifer Haigh
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: HarperCollins
Published: 2013
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 244
ISBN-13: 9780060889647
Subjects: Short stories; Coal mines and mining; Domestic fiction; Fiction
Description: Now, in this collection of interconnected short stories, Jennifer Haigh returns to the vividly imagined world of Bakerton, Pennsylvania, a coal mining town 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--sometimes cruelly - succeeding generations to the place that made them.
Table of contents: title: Beast and bird --; title: Something sweet --; title: Broken star -- -- A; title: place in the sun --; title: To the stars --; title: Thrift --; title: Favorite son -- -- The; title: bottom of things --; title: What remains --; title: Desiderata.