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Paul Chowder is a poet, but he's fallen out of love with writing poems. He hasn't fallen out of love with his ex-girlfriend Roz, though. In fact he misses her desperately. As he struggles to come to terms with Roz's new relationship with a doctor, Paul turns to his acoustic guitar for comfort and inspiration, and fills his days writing protest songs, going to Quaker meetings, struggling through Planet Fitness workouts, wondering if he could become a techno DJ, and experimenting with becoming a cigar smoker. Written in Baker's beautifully unconventional prose, and scored with musical influences from Debussy to Tracy Chapman to Paul himself, Travelling Sprinkler is an enchanting, hilarious, and deeply necessary novel. 'I think the job of the novelist is to write about interesting things, including things that might not seem all that interesting at first glance, and to offer evidence that life is worth living' Nicholson Baker
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Exquisitely sublime (The New York Times)
Goofy and elegaic, intricately patterned and moving (New Yorker)
Baker's endearingly comedic, covertly philosophical love story mischievously celebrates song and silence, steadfastness and loving-kindness (Booklist)
The book is a delight: funny, tender and endearingly bonkers. A lesser writer dealing with a hapless, guitar-plucking, cigar-puffing poet on the slide in his fifties would be tempted to shovel trouble at him for comic or emotional effect. Baker does the opposite, imbuing Chowder not only with a feverish intellectual curiosity but with a generosity of spirit...Baker has a strange and interesting mind, and a life-enhancing wit to go with it. Travelling Sprinkler sees him at the top of his form. (Terence Blacker Independent)
He once again shows he's a master of gentle, obsessively detailed comedy. Terrific. (Harry Ritchie Daily Mail)
melancholic and sweet (William Leith Evening Standard)
Genial, softly upbeat, written as flowingly as if he were telling a friend about his day (Mail on Sunday)
Descrizione del libro
A brilliantly clever, comic novel about love in middle-age by an American master.
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- EditoreSerpent's Tail
- Data di pubblicazione2011
- ISBN 10 1781252785
- ISBN 13 9781781252789
- RilegaturaCopertina flessibile
- Numero di pagine304
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