A Box Of Matches

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ISBN 10: 0701174021 / ISBN 13: 9780701174026

Editore: -, 2003

A Box Of Matches This book is in very good condition and will be shipped within 24 hours of ordering. The cover may have some limited signs of wear but the pages are clean, intact and the spine remains undamaged. This book has clearly been well maintained and looked after thus far. Money back guarantee if you are not satisfied. See all our books here, order more than 1 book and get discounted shipping. Codice articolo 7719-9780701174026

Riassunto:

Here is Nicholson Baker at his obsessive-compulsive best, with humour and observation to die for, but with underlying truths and sadness about the ephemerality of life, the joy of small things, the darkness which is just the other side of everyday life - all human life in a box of matches. This book gets at the real meaning of 'the examined life', and it's unmistakably serious, but also side-splittingly funny. 'It is 4.32 am...' most chapters start similarly...A man gets up earlier and earlier each day, dresses in the dark, makes his coffee and lights the fire with a box of matches, also in the dark, feeling his way around, through his silent house, where wife and children sleep, and then rummages through the thoughts which crowd his head and preoccupy him. Meanwhile outside, there's snow on the ground, Greta the duck is asleep in her dog kennel with a rug thrown over it, but that doesn't stop her bowl of water freezing each night. This is mid-life man, domesticated but still an alien creature, whose thoughts veer brilliantly from love and marriage, to firelighters and suicide, from peeing in the dark to ant-farms in the twinkling of an eye. This is virtuoso writing, idiosyncratic, brilliant, funny and touching. Nicholson Baker back on MEZZANINE form for a new generation of readers.

Informazioni sull?autore: Nicholson Baker has published five novels - The Mezzanine, Room Temperature, Vox, The Fermata, and The Everlasting Story of Nory - and three works of non-fiction, U and I, The Size of Thoughts, and Double Fold. He lives in Maine with his wife and two children. (2002-10-18)

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Titolo: A Box Of Matches
Casa editrice: -
Data di pubblicazione: 2003
Legatura: Hardcover
Condizione: Very Good