Arno Strine, a modest temporary typist, has perfected the knack of stopping time in its tracks and taking women's clothes off, he is hard at work on his autobiography, "The Fermata", which proves in the telling to be a provocative, very funny and altogether morally confused piece of work.

The Fermata

Literature & Fiction

NICHOLSON BAKER

Literary

Random House]

In his startling, witty, and inexhaustibly inventive novel, bestselling author Nicholson Baker uses a one-story escalator ride as the occasion for a dazzling reappraisal of everyday objects and rituals. From the humble milk carton to the act of tying one’s shoes, The Mezzanine at once defamiliarizes the familiar world and endows it with loopy and euphoric poetry. At first glance, The Mezzanine appears to be a book about nothing. In reality, it is a brilliant celebration of things, simultaneously demonstrating the value of reflection and the importance of everyday human experiences.“Captures the spirit of American corporate life and invests it with a passion and sympathy that is entirely unexpected.” — The Seattle Times“A constant delight . . . among the year’s best.” — The Boston Globe“Baker writes with appealing charm . . . [He] clowns and shows off . . . rambles and pounces hard; he says acute things, extravagant things, terribly funny things.” — Los Angeles Times Book Review

The Mezzanine

Contemporary

Penguin Books / Granta

U AND I: A TRUE STORY

Biographies & Memoirs

Granta

Checkpoint (Large Print)

Haights Cross Communications Co.

The Way the World Works

The Way the World Works, Nicholson Baker's ranges over the map of life to examine what ails us, what eases our pain, and what gives us joy. Baker-recently hailed as "one of the most consistently enticing writers of our time" by The New York Times-moves from political controversy to the intimacy of his own life, from forgotten heroes of pacifism to airplane wings, telephones, paper mills, David Remnick, Joseph Pulitzer, the OED, and the manufacture of the Venetian gondola. In one essay, Baker surveys our fascination with video games while attempting to beat his teenage son at Modern Warfare 2; in a celebrated essay on Wikipedia, he describes his efforts to stem the tide of encyclopedic deletionism. Through all these pieces Baker shines the light of an inexpugnable curiosity; The Way the World Works is a keen-minded, generous-spirited compendium by a modern American master.

Simon&Schuster

Simon Schuster Ltd

Fermata, The

BRILLIANCE AUDIO ^

Vox is a novel that remaps the territory of sex - sex solitary and telephonic, lyrical and profane, comfortable and dangerous. It is an erotic classic that places Nicholson Baker firmly in the first rank of major American writers."Imagine Chagall being commissioned to do the drawing for The Joy of Sex, and you'll have some notion of the topsy-turvy, concupiscent free-for-all that Vox conjures up... The book achieves a giddy buoyancy that you don't often find in American fiction." - Michael Upchurch, San Francisco Chronicle"Explicit, often funny, and above all erotic...Baker specializes in the risky and playful." - Cyra McFadden, Los Angeles Times"This is Ravel's 'Bolero' played out on the page...The conversation gets sexier and sexier and...well, I'm too wrung out to go on." - Louise Bernikow, Cosmopolitan

Granta Books

Mezzanine

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