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.

Room temperature

Contemporary

Granta/Penguin

U AND I: A TRUE STORY

Biographies & Memoirs

Granta Books

Random House]

The Mezzanine

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

Granta Books/Penguin Books

Random

Emmett has a wife and two children, a cat, and a duck, and he wants to know what life is about. Every day he gets up before dawn, makes a cup of coffee in the dark, lights a fire with one wooden match, and thinks. What Emmett thinks about is the subject of this wise and closely observed novel, which covers vast distances while moving no farther than Emmett’s hearth and home. Nicholson Baker’s extraordinary ability to describe and celebrate life in all its rich ordinariness has never been so beautifully achieved. Baker won the National Book Critics Circle Award for Double Fold: Libraries and the Assault on Paper. He now returns to fiction with this lovely book, reminiscent of the early novels—Room Temperature and The Mezzanine—that established his reputation.

A Box of Matches: A Novel

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