Taking a different approach, this novel has no story, no plot and no conflict. Instead, it gives a first-person account of that modern experience: working in an office. This is Nicholson Baker's first novel, though his stories have appeared in "The Atlantic" and "The New Yorker".
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Nicholson Baker was born in New York in 1957. He is the author of eight novels, including The Mezzanine, Vox and Room Temperature (all Granta Books), and five non-fiction works, including U & I (also Granta) and Double Fold: Libraries and the Assault on Paper, for which he won the 2001 National Book Critics Circle Award.
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