The Everlasting Story of Nory - Hardcover

Baker, Nicholson

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9780679439332: The Everlasting Story of Nory

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0679439331 ISBN 13: 9780679439332

Publisher: Random House Inc, 1998

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The author of Room Temperature captures the insight and wonder of childhood in a hilarious, touching portrayal of the world as seen by a nine-year-old girl who moves to England with her family. 40,000 first printing.

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Review:

"Baker has created a world in which imagination still gets the better of its new roommate, reason. . . . [The Everlasting Story of Nory is] a map of the 9-year-old mind, drawn perfectly to scale." --Daily News

"Baker turn[s] his celebrated powers. . .on the strange inner life of an American girl. . . . Nory is as large as life and twice as
natural." --The New York Times Book Review

"Thoughtful and daft, sure-footed and tentative. . . . [The Everlasting Story of Nory is] pitch-perfect." --The Wall Street Journal

"Tender, insightful, and hilarious." --Harper's Bazaar

About the Author:

Nicholson Baker was born in 1957, and lives in Northern California. He is the author of four novels, a work of non-fiction, and a collection of essays, The Size of Thoughts, and he writes for The New Yorker and Esquire. He and his family spent the best part of one year in Ely, Cambridgeshire.

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