Vox: A Novel (Vintage Contemporaries) - Softcover

Baker, Nicholson

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0679742115 ISBN 13: 9780679742111

Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 1995

Synopsis

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Vox is a novel that remaps the territory of sex--sex solitary and telephonic, lyrical and profane, comfortable and dangerous. It is an erotic classic that places Nicholson Baker firmly in the first rank of major American writers.

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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 ten novels and has written about poetry, literature, history, politics, time manipulation, youth, and sex. In 1999, he founded the American Newspaper Repository, a collection of nineteenth- and twentieth-century newspapers. He received a National Book Critics Circle Award in 2001 for his nonfiction book, Double Fold: Libraries and the Assault on Paper and the International Hermann Hesse Prize (Germany) in 2014. He lives in Maine with his wife and two children.

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Baker has written a novel that remaps the territory of sex--solitary and telephonic, lyrical and profane, comfortable and dangerous. Written in the form of a phone conversation between two strangers, Vox is an erotic classic that places the author in the first rank of America's major writers. Reading tour.

About this edition

• Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
• Publication date: 1995
• ISBN 10: 0679742115
• ISBN 13: 9780679742111
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 176