Synopsis
During a month in the life of a forty-five-year-old editor of medical textbooks, Emmett--married with children, a cat, and a duck--ruminates about the meaning of life during his pre-dawn sojourns alone. By the National Book Critics Circle Award-winning author of Double Fold: Libraries and the Assault on Paper. 50,000 first printing.
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About the Author
Nicholson Baker was born in 1957 and attended the Eastman School of Music and Haverford College. He has published five previous novels—<i>The Mezzanine</i> (1988), <i>Room Temperature</i> (1990), <i>Vox</i> (1992), <i>The Fermata</i> (1994), and <i>The Everlasting Story of Nory</i> (1998)—and three works of nonfiction, <i>U and I </i>(1991), <i>The Size of Thoughts</i> (1996), and <i>Double Fold </i>(2001), which won a National Book Critics Circle Award. In 1999 he founded the American Newspaper Repository, a collection of nineteenth- and twentieth-century newspapers. He lives in Maine with his wife and two children.
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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.<br><br>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.<br><br>Baker won the National Book Critics Circle Award for <b>Double Fold: Libraries and the Assault on Paper</b>. He now returns to fiction with this lovely book, reminiscent of the early novels—<b>Room Temperature</b> and <b>The Mezzanine</b>—that established his reputation.
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