Red Baker

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.