Red Baker

ROBERT WARD

Publication: The Dial Press, 1985, Garden City, New York

First edition. Fine in fine dust jacket lightly soiled on back panel. Larmel Steel in Baltimore, Maryland, laid off 60% of its workers. When Red Baker, a Larnel 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.

Inventory Number: 21459