Jennifer Haigh: 10 books

The Spring 2017 issue of Ploughshares. Ploughshares is an award-winning journal of new writing. Two out of each year’s three issues are guest-edited by prominent writers who explore different personal visions, aesthetics, and literary circles; the Winter issue is staff-edited.  ...

«Avvincente, realistica e totalizzante, la sua prosa è paragonabile a quella di grandi autori molto diversi tra loro quali Richard Ford, Richard Price e Richard Russo. » The New York Times «Finalmente un romanzo e un’autrice ambiziosi, degni dell’importanza dell’argomento trattato......

In News from Heaven, Jennifer Haigh—bestselling author of Faith and The Condition—returns to the territory of her acclaimed novel Baker Towers with a collection of short stories set in and around the fictionalized coal-mining town of Bakerton, Pennsylvania. Exploring themes of restlessness,...

"[Haigh is] an expertnatural storyteller with an acute sense of her characters' humanity." —NewYork Times   "We have the intriguing possibility that the nextgreat American author is already in print." —Fort Worth Star-Telegram   When Sheila McGann setsout to redeem her disgraced...

“Beautiful, devastating and complex.” —Chicago Tribune The award-winning debut novel from Jennifer Haigh, author of BakerTowers, The Condition, and Faith, tells the story of Birdie, Joan,and Dinah, three women who marry the same charismatic, predatory, and enigmaticopportunist: Ken Kimble....

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,...

In the summer of 1976, during their annual retreat on Cape Cod, the McKotch family came apart. Now, twenty years after daughter Gwen was diagnosed with Turner's syndrome—a rare genetic condition that keeps her trapped forever in the body of a child—eminent scientist Frank McKotch is divorced from...

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,...

Sheila, Art en Mike groeiden op in een grote Iers-Amerikaanse familie in een buitenwijk van Boston. Hun vader is niet gelovig, maar hun moeder is een typisch Ierse katholiek die haar kinderen heeft opgevoed met de gedachte dat familiegeheimen vooral verborgen moeten blijven en dat je over een groot...

What social change has been achieved over the past 30 years? What have been the main barriers to progress? What great achievements can we identify and celebrate today? Marking Jessica Kingsley Publishers' 30th year of publishing books on social and behavioural issues, this book gathers together...