News from Heaven: The Bakerton Stories
Year of Publication |
2013
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Publication Type |
Short Stories
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Number of Pages or Episodes |
244 p.
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Language |
English
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Contributors |
Author:
Jennifer Haigh |
Publisher |
Harper Perennial
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City |
New York
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Abstract |
A collection of 11 interconnected short stories about the Western Pennsylvania citizens of Bakerton, a fiction coal-mining town buffeted by decades of change. Bakerton is inspired by the writer's hometown of Barnesboro, Cambria County.
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Author Biography |
Jennifer Wasilko Haigh (1968— ) was born to a Ukrainian Catholic family in Cambria County. She earned a BA at Dickinson College and an MFA at the Iowa Writers' Workshop.
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Time |
1940s-2000s
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