The Size of Thoughts: Essays and Other Lumber - Hardcover

Baker, Nicholson

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0679439323 ISBN 13: 9780679439325

Publisher: Random House Inc, 1996

Synopsis

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 significance of wine stains on a tablecloth.

Baker turns any subject, from feeding a child to phone sex, into literature with a style that is sparklingly original, frequently beautiful, and always thought-provoking. The Size of Thoughts, through its varied forays into the realms of the overlooked, the underfunded, and the wrongfully scrapped, is a funny book by one of the most distinctive stylists and thinkers of out time.

About this title

About the Author:

Nicholson Baker has published five novels-The Mezzanine, Room Temperature, Vox, The Fermata, and The Everlasting Story of Nory-and two works of nonfiction, U and I and The Size of Thoughts. He lives with his wife and two children in Maine.

From the Inside Flap:

The bestselling author of Vox and The Fermata devotes his hyperdriven curiosity and magnificently baroque prose to the fossils of punctuation and the lexicography of smut, delivering to readers a provocative and often hilarious celebration of the neglected aspects of our experience. 368 pp. 15,000 print.

About this edition

• Publisher: Random House Inc
• Publication date: 1996
• ISBN 10: 0679439323
• ISBN 13: 9780679439325
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 355