Paperback , First Vintage Edition, 1st printing 303 pages by Nicholson Baker. "Wildly comic, deeply disturbing...Baker writes like no one else in America."--Newsweek.

The Fermata

Literature & Fiction

BAKER, NICHOLSON

Literary

Vintage Books

A Box of Matches

A man gets up earlier and earlier each day, dresses in the dark, makes his coffee and lights the fire with a box of matches. Then, he rummages through the thoughts that crowd his head and preoccupy him. Here is mid-life domesticated man, whose thoughts veer brilliantly from love and marriage, to firelighters and suicide, in the twinkling of an eye. This is Baker at his best, humorous and observant, revealing the 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.

THE FERMATA.

A selection from Baker's essays and journalism which form some of his most popular writing. The subjects range from extinct forms of punctuation to the tribulations of reading aloud; and from the contemplation of the unbuilt model airplane to the mechanics of changing one's mind.

Size of Thoughts

Room temperature

Contemporary

Granta/Penguin

Vintage Contemporaries

Random House]

The Mezzanine

Granta

Room Temperature

Grove Weidenfeld

Written by the author of "The Mezzanine" and "Room Temperature", this is a book about John Updike and Nicholson Baker.

U and I

Biographies & Memoirs

Granta Books/Penguin Books

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