A Box of Matches (Vintage Contemporaries) - Softcover

"[Baker's] most affecting and satisfying novel yet." --Newsweek

"Wonderful. . . . An opportunity for heightened mindfulness. . . . Baker has made an astonishing specialty of showing just how much is going on in life, and in our heads, when it seems that nothing is." --Walter Kirn, The New York Times Book Review

"Hypnotic. . . . By simply striking a match, Baker has traveled through space and time to set a world on fire." --The Village Voice

"Tender, melancholy . . . As Virginia Woolf did, Baker has genuinely transformed the way fiction can render our experience on the page. There nothing else like A Box of Matches out there." --The Seattle Times

During a month in the life of a forty-five-year-old editor of medical textbooks, Emmett--married with children, a cat, and a duck--ruminates about the meaning of life during his pre-dawn sojourns alone. By the National Book Critics Circle Award-winning author of Double Fold: Libraries and the Assault on Paper. Reprint. 35,000 first printing.