Автор: Haigh, Jennifer Название: Baker Towers ISBN: 0060509422 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780060509422 Издательство: HarperCollins USA Цена: 1458.00 р. Наличие на складе: Нет в наличии.
Описание: The Chicago Tribune put it best when they wrote of BAKER TOWERS “No brief description of this book can give a sense of the care that has gone into the making of it.” Jennifer Haigh’s second novel has met with phenomenal reviews from every major newspaper, magazine and critic, incredible sales from both large and independent stores and a fan base that keeps growing.
Автор: Haigh Jennifer Название: Heat and Light ISBN: 0061763497 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780061763496 Издательство: HarperCollins USA Рейтинг: Цена: 1566.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
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A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: New York Times, The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal, NPR
Acclaimed New York Times bestselling author Jennifer Haigh returns to the Pennsylvania town at the center of her iconic novel Baker Towers in this ambitious, achingly human story of modern America and the conflicting forces at its heart--a bold, moving drama of hope and desperation, greed and power, big business and small-town families.
Forty years ago, Bakerton coal fueled the country. Then the mines closed, and the town wore away like a bar of soap. Now Bakerton has been granted a surprise third act: it sits squarely atop the Marcellus Shale, a massive deposit of natural gas.
To drill or not to drill? Prison guard Rich Devlin leases his mineral rights to finance his dream of farming. He doesn't count on the truck traffic and nonstop noise, his brother's skepticism or the paranoia of his wife, Shelby, who insists the water smells strange and is poisoning their frail daughter. Meanwhile his neighbors, organic dairy farmers Mack and Rena, hold out against the drilling--until a passionate environmental activist disrupts their lives.
Told through a cast of characters whose lives are increasingly bound by the opposing interests that underpin the national debate, Heat and Light depicts a community blessed and cursed by its natural resources. Soaring and ambitious, it zooms from drill rig to shareholders' meeting to the Three Mile Island nuclear reactor to the ruined landscape of the "strippins," haunting reminders of Pennsylvania's past energy booms. This is a dispatch from a forgotten America--a work of searing moral clarity from one of the finest writers of her generation, a courageous and necessary book.
Автор: Haigh Jennifer Название: Faith ISBN: 0007225091 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780007225095 Издательство: HarperCollins UK Рейтинг: Цена: 1451.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: One woman`s search for the truth after scandal rocks her family, and the explosive family secrets she uncovers, in this complex, moving novel from award-winning author Jennifer Haigh.
Автор: Haigh, Jo Название: Business Rules ISBN: 0749927062 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780749927066 Издательство: Little Brown Рейтинг: Цена: 1972.00 р. Наличие на складе: Поставка под заказ.
Описание: The business world is awash with legal pitfalls and opportunities. This book highlights essential business practice to provide insight and guidelines to alert and arm you before you enter the proverbial lion`s den of the business world. Drawing on legislation and case histories, it covers approximately 80 key topics.
Автор: Jennifer Haigh Название: Baker towers ISBN: 0007150873 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780007150878 Издательство: HarperCollins UK Рейтинг: Цена: 1055.00 р. Наличие на складе: Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Jennifer Haigh's second novel is an intimate portrait of love and family, which will appeal to fans of Anne Tyler and Carol Shields. Stanley Novak is a first-generation Polish immigrant. Seeking a better life, he settles in Bakerton and finds work in the booming local mine. He meets and marries Rose, a shy, beautiful Italian girl. They move to a mine-owned house in an area of town known as Polish Hill, teeming with immigrants from all over Europe, all chasing the American Dream. Five children follow for the Novaks. The Novak children belong to what will someday be known as the Greatest Generation, but for now, they are just trying to find their identities in a vastly changing world. The five children could not be more different. The eldest, George, avoids signing up but is drafted to the Pacific when America joins the war. He comes home determined to leave Bakerton behind, but finds it much more difficult the second time around. Dorothy is a fragile and naive girl, who finds it hard to cope with her desk job in Washington. Joyce, fiercely intelligent, must hold the family together and remains bitterly aware of the life that she could have had. Sandy, the youngest boy, swans through life with his movie-star looks, never taking responsibility for his actions. And Lucy, the youngest, must find her own path in the shadow of her formidable siblings. Haigh gives us a beautiful snapshot of a small town -- of company houses and union squabbles; the boom and bust of the post-war years; the immigrant neighbourhoods of Swedetown, Little Italy and Polish Hill; the miners, undertakers, soldiers, firemen and housewives who populate the town and bring it to life.
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