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Red Baker
Author(s): Robert Ward (Author)
- Publisher: Gallery Books
- Publication Date: March 17, 2014
- Edition: Illustrated
- Language: English
- Print length: 246 pages
- ISBN-10: 1440550204
- ISBN-13: 9781440550201
Book Description
When Red Baker, a Larmel steel worker in Baltimore, Maryland, gets laid off from his job he goes crazy: boozing, attempted philandering, running away from his future. Filled with unforgettable characters from Red’s angry but loyal wife, Wanda; his basketball-star son, Ace; his lifelong friend Dog, a casualty of the layoff; and Crystal, the go-go dancer at Lily’s bar who embodies Red’s fantasies of escape. Red Baker is a classic American novel about a man with no identity who tries to replace the one he’s lost.
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About the Author
Robert Ward is the author of eleven novels, including Four Kinds of Rain, a New York Times Notable Book, Red Baker, winner of the PEN West Award for Best Novel, Shedding Skin, and The Stone Carrier.
