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Vintage
January 2004
On Sale: January 1, 2004
144 pages
ISBN: 0099448386
EAN: 9780099448389
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Fiction
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.
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