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]

THE FERMATA.

Chatto&Windus

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

Vintage Books

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

Vintage, 1993

Checkpoint (Large Print)

Haights Cross Communications Co.

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

granta books uk

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