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Mezzanine
Häftad, 2020
135 kr
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The Mezzanine is the story of one man's lunch hour. Pondering life's littlest questions - why does one shoelace always wear out before the other? Whatever happened to the paper drinking straw - our narrator interrogates the inner-workings of corporate living as he traipses his way down escalators …
Vox
E-bok, 2011
205 kr
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Baker has written a novel that remaps the territory of sex--solitary and telephonic, lyrical and profane, comfortable and dangerous. Written in the form of a phone conversation between two strangers, Vox is an erotic classic that places the author in the first rank of America''s major writers.
Labyrinth
Av Harold Rosenberg, Nicholson Baker m. fl.
Inbunden, 2018
306 kr
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A seminal work by an artist whose drawings in The New Yorker , LIFE , Harper's Bazaar , and many other publications influenced an entire generation of American artists and writers. Saul Steinberg’s The Labyrinth , first published in 1960 and long out of print, is more than a simple catalog or …
Human Smoke: The Beginnings of World War II, the End of Civilization
Häftad, 2009
293 kr
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Fermata
Häftad, 1995
210 kr
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This is the story of Arno Strine, a modest temporary typist, who 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 very provocative, very funny and altogether morally …
Vintage Baker
E-bok, 2007
79 kr
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Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award, Nicholson Baker has established himself as one of our most brilliant observers of everyday experience. With his keen perception, flawless prose, and endless wit, he has composed both fiction and nonfiction that has become an essential part of our …
Fermata
E-bok, 2011
205 kr
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Having turned phone sex into the subject of an astonishing national bestseller in Vox, Baker now outdoes himself with an outrageously arousing, acrobatically stylish "X-rated sci-fi fantasy that leaves Vox seeming more like mere fiber-optic foreplay" (Seattle Times). "Sparkling."--San Francisco …
U and I
A True Story
E-bok, 2011
205 kr
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Baker muses on the creative process via his obsession with John Updike. From the Trade Paperback edition.
Size of Thoughts
Essays and Other Lumber
E-bok, 2011
158 kr
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The Size of Thoughts , a collection of essays that have appeared in the New Yorker and other publications, includes one never-before-published piece on the world of electronics. The essays celebrate the joy--and exquisite details--of everything from library card catalogs and reading aloud to the …
Everlasting Story of Nory
E-bok, 2011
95 kr
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Our supreme fabulist of the ordinary now turns his attention on a 9-year-old American girl and produces a novel as enchantingly idiosyncratic as any he has written. Nory Winslow wants to be a dentist or a designer of pop-up books. She likes telling stories and inventing dolls. She has nightmares …
Substitute
Going to School with a Thousand Kids
E-bok, 2016
82 kr
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**A New York Times Bestseller** “May be the most revealing depiction of the American contemporary classroom that we have to date." —Garret Keizer, The New York Times Book Review Bestselling author Nicholson Baker, in pursuit of the realities of American public education, signed up as a substitute …
Traveling Sprinkler
A Novel
E-bok, 2013
90 kr
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Paul Chowder, the poet protagonist of Nicholson Baker’s widely acclaimed novel The Anthologist , is turning fifty-five and missing his ex-girlfriend, Roz, rather desperately. As he approaches the dreaded birthday, Paul is uninspired by his usual artistic outlet (although he’s pleased that his …
Paul Chowder Chronicles
The Anthologist and Traveling Sprinkler, Two Novels
E-bok, 2014
98 kr
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TOGETHER FOR THE FIRST TIME, BOTH OF NICHOLSON BAKER’S BRILLIANT NOVELS FEATURING BELOVED HERO AND POET PAUL CHOWDER A New York Times notable book and a national bestseller, Nicholson Baker’s The Anthologist introduces his quirkiest and most unforgettable protagonist yet, the “erudite, …
Baseless
My Search for Secrets in the Ruins of the Freedom of Information Act
Inbunden, 2020
332 kr
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“Staggeringly good.” — Counterpunch A major new work, a hybrid of history, journalism, and memoir, about the modern Freedom of Information Act — FOIA — and the horrifying, decades-old government misdeeds that it is unable to demystify, from one of America's most celebrated writers Eight years ago, …
Baseless
My Search for Secrets in the Ruins of the Freedom of Information Act
Häftad, 2021
213 kr
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“Staggeringly good.” — Counterpunch A major new work, a hybrid of history, journalism, and memoir, about the modern Freedom of Information Act — FOIA — and the horrifying, decades-old government misdeeds that it is unable to demystify, from one of America's most celebrated writers Eight years ago, …
House of Holes
E-bok, 2011
147 kr
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Visit the House of Holes, where the motto is PLEASURE FIRST, and discover a solution to every sexual problem, insight into every sexual intrigue, or play out your greatest sexual fantasy. Men can begin with a 'good, friendly penis scrub', take the magic sperm sniff test, or visit the …
Double Fold
Libraries and the Assault on Paper
E-bok, 2002
158 kr
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The ostensible purpose of a library is to preserve the printed word. But for fifty years our country’s libraries–including the Library of Congress–have been doing just the opposite, destroying hundreds of thousands of historic newspapers and replacing them with microfilm copies that are difficult …
Checkpoint
E-bok, 2004
110 kr
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From Nicholson Baker, best-selling author of Vox and the most original writer of his generation, his most controversial novel yet. From the Trade Paperback edition.
