Nicholson Baker
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Nicholson Baker. A Box of Matches. London, UK: Chatto & Windus, 2003
"A Box of Matches" reveals Nicholson Baker at his obsessive-compulsive best, with humour and observation to die for, but with underlying truths about the ephemerality of life, the joy of small things, the darkness just the other side of everyday life - all human life in a box of matches. He knows how to get at the real meaning of the "examined life" and it's unmistakably serious - but also side-splittingly funny. This is virtuoso writing, idiosyncratic, brilliant, hilarious and touching. ~~~ Author(s): Nicholson Baker; Binding material: Paper; Binding state: Original binding; Class: Uncorrected proof; Condition: Mint; Edition: Not applicable; Jacket condition: Not applicable; Language: English; Pages: 178; Publication year: 2003; Size: 12mo..
Not applicable, See notes, 12mo, Mint
Baker, Nicholson: Vox, NY Random House 1992
ISBN: 0394589955 Fine
Hard cover. This is an exceptionally clean, fresh and nice first printing, jacket flaps bit creased. Unclipped. Jim and Abby meet over the phone when they both dial one of those party lines that are advertised in adult magazines. After some exploratory small talk, they retire to the electronic "back room" for a more intimate chat. Their long conversation makes up the entire book. If the premise sounds a bit thin, remember that Nicholson Baker's brilliant first novel The Mezzanine was about an office worker's lunch-hour expedition to buy new shoelaces. Like all great artists, Baker has the ability to make familiar objects and everyday events seem new and strange. Centerfolds, lingerie catalogs, and X-rated videos will never look the same. Indeed, Vox transforms the genre itself: this is eroticism for the safe-sex Nineties. Not only is there no physical contact, the participants never leave the privacy of their own homes. The reviews were great. From The Washington Post Book World: A remarkable tour de force....Vox is hilarious....a delightful novel. From The Los Angeles Times: "Explicit, often funny, and above all erotic....Baker specializes in the risky and playful". First Edition, First Printing Near Fine
Baker, Nicholson: The Fermata, New York, NY, U.S.A. Random House, Incorporated 1994
ISBN: 0679415866 Fine
This is a very clean, fresh and nice first printing. Original price intact on dust jacket, as necessary; without acetate band around book. The Fermata is the most risky of Nicholson Baker's emotional histories. His narrator, Arno Strine, is a 35-year-old office temp who is writing his autobiography. "It's harder than I thought!" he admits. His "Fold-powers" are easier; he can stop the world and use it as his own pleasure ground. Arno uses this gift not for evil or material gain (he would feel guilty about stealing), though he does undress a good number of women and momentarily place them in compromising positions--always, in his view, with respect and love. Anyone who can stop time and refer in self-delight to his "chronanisms" can't be all bad! Like Baker's other books, The Fermata gains little from synopsis. The pleasure is literally in the text. What's memorable is less the sex and the sex toys (including the "Monasticon," in the shape of a monk holding a vibrating manuscript) than Arno's wistful recollections of intimacy: the noise, for instance, of his ex-girlfriend's nail clipper, "which I listened to in bed as some listen to real birdsong." First Edition, First Printing Fine Hard Cover in Dust Jacket
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Nicholson Baker: Mezzanine, GRANTA BOOKS, Juli 2011 ISBN: 184708348X
Nicholson Baker's hilarious, genre-defining debut novel, part of a stunning redesign of Baker's Granta backlist.
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