Size of Thoughts:, The: Essays and Other Lumber
 Amazon.com Review: Novelist and essayist Nicholson Baker has had a small but well-deserved cult following since his first book, The Mezzanine, and the publication of the literary sex-bomb Vox saw his popularity mushroom. Baker's great gift is a precision [... more]
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Biography - Baker, Nicholson (1957-): An article from: ...
Author: Gale Reference Team Binding: Digital Format: HTML Number Of Pages: 13 Publication Date: 2005-01-01 Release Date: 2007-12-16 [... more]
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A Box of Matches
Amazon.com Review: One man's simple, colloquial meditations on his past, his family, and his life's daily minutia are the substance of Nicholson Baker's A Box of Matches. Feeling that life is passing him by, Emmett, a middle-aged medical textbook editor, [... more]
$12.95
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The Everlasting Story of Nory
Amazon.com Review: Sex and the adult cerebellum have tended to be Nicholson Baker's cherished subjects, and not necessarily in that order. In The Everlasting Story of Nory, however, he turns his literary microscopy in an entirely new direction, exploring [... more]
$12.00
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U and I: A True Story
Amazon.com Review: Nicholson Baker is most famous for Vox, the phone-sex novel Monica Lewinsky gave President Clinton, but the vastly superior U and I contains Baker's own dirty little secret: an obsession with John Updike. Not since Salieri in Peter [... more]
$12.95
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The Size of Thoughts: Essays and Other Lumber
Amazon.com Review: Novelist and essayist Nicholson Baker has had a small but well-deserved cult following since his first book, The Mezzanine, and the publication of the literary sex-bomb Vox saw his popularity mushroom. Baker's great gift is a precision [... more]
$14.00
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Vintage Baker
Author: Nicholson Baker Binding: Paperback Dewey Decimal Number: 813.54 EAN: 9781400078608 ISBN: 1400078601 Number Of Pages: 208 Publication Date: 2004-09-14 Release Date: 2004-09-14 [... more]
$9.95
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Room Temperature
Amazon.com Review: Nicholson Baker writes in 360-degree Sensurround--his descriptions of the seemingly banal awakening the most jaded of senses into recognition, admiration, and amusement. In Room Temperature, his self-deprecating, endlessly curious [... more]
$10.00
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Double Fold: Libraries and the Assault on Paper
Hilarious and ridiculous: ...to even think of blaming libraries. Maybe if high powered political figures on library boards across America didn't feel the need to make their served institutions "All Things to All People" and got back to core [... more]
$14.00
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The Mezzanine
Nicholson Baker Weaves A Modern Day Disasterpiece: It's really painful for me to read the fawning praise by other Amazon reviewers lionizing this book for its originality. The entire work could serve as a cliché for artistic pretentiousness at its [... more]
$12.95
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The Mezzanine: A Novel
Just Pleasure in Reading: There is very little to take away from this book. And that is praiseworthy. If you feel you must find some kind of meaning, you could make a case that our life is lived in the minutiae that we ignore and not in the grand moments [... more]
$15.95
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Checkpoint: A Novel
a friend stopping a friend: This is a very politically motivated book where two guys get together and one has a plan to assinate the President. What transpires are the goals of both guys--one to stop his friend from his sick plan, the other to carry out [... more]
$10.00
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