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Vox
Format: Trade Paperback, 176 pages
On Sale: January 26, 1993
Price: $13.95
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. Read more >
Format: Trade Paperback, 176 pages
On Sale: January 26, 1993
Price: $13.95
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. Read more >
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The Mezzanine
Format: Trade Paperback, 144 pages
On Sale: January 16, 1990
Price: $13.95
Turns an ordinary ride up an office escalator into a meditation on our relations with familiar objects--shoelaces, straws, and more. Baker's debut novel, and a favorite amongst many of us here. Read more >
Format: Trade Paperback, 144 pages
On Sale: January 16, 1990
Price: $13.95
Turns an ordinary ride up an office escalator into a meditation on our relations with familiar objects--shoelaces, straws, and more. Baker's debut novel, and a favorite amongst many of us here. Read more >
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The Fermata
Format: Trade Paperback, 320 pages
On Sale: January 24, 1995
Price: $14.00
Having turned phone sex into the subject of an astonishing national bestseller in Vox, Baker now outdoes himself with an outrageously arousing, acrobatically stylish "X-rated sci-fi fantasy that leaves Vox seeming more like mere fiber-optic foreplay" (Seattle Times). "Sparkling."--San Francisco Chronicle. Read more >
Format: Trade Paperback, 320 pages
On Sale: January 24, 1995
Price: $14.00
Having turned phone sex into the subject of an astonishing national bestseller in Vox, Baker now outdoes himself with an outrageously arousing, acrobatically stylish "X-rated sci-fi fantasy that leaves Vox seeming more like mere fiber-optic foreplay" (Seattle Times). "Sparkling."--San Francisco Chronicle. Read more >
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U and I
Format: Trade Paperback, 192 pages
On Sale: February 4, 1992
Price: $12.95
Baker muses on the creative process via his obsession with John Updike. Read more >
Format: Trade Paperback, 192 pages
On Sale: February 4, 1992
Price: $12.95
Baker muses on the creative process via his obsession with John Updike. Read more >
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Double Fold
Format: Trade Paperback, 384 pages
On Sale: April 9, 2002
Price: $14.00
The ostensible purpose of a library is to preserve the printed word. But for fifty years our country’s libraries–including the Library of Congress–have been doing just the opposite, destroying hundreds of thousands of historic newspapers and replacing them with microfilm copies that are difficult to read, lack all the color and... Read more >
Format: Trade Paperback, 384 pages
On Sale: April 9, 2002
Price: $14.00
The ostensible purpose of a library is to preserve the printed word. But for fifty years our country’s libraries–including the Library of Congress–have been doing just the opposite, destroying hundreds of thousands of historic newspapers and replacing them with microfilm copies that are difficult to read, lack all the color and... Read more >
Also available as an
eBook.
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The Size of Thoughts
Format: Trade Paperback, 368 pages
On Sale: February 25, 1997
Price: $14.00
The bestselling author of Vox and The Fermata devotes his hyperdriven curiosity and magnificently baroque prose to the fossils of punctuation and the lexicography of smut, delivering to readers a provocative and often hilarious celebration of the neglected aspects of our experience. 368 pp. 15,000 print. Read more >
Format: Trade Paperback, 368 pages
On Sale: February 25, 1997
Price: $14.00
The bestselling author of Vox and The Fermata devotes his hyperdriven curiosity and magnificently baroque prose to the fossils of punctuation and the lexicography of smut, delivering to readers a provocative and often hilarious celebration of the neglected aspects of our experience. 368 pp. 15,000 print. Read more >
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Room Temperature
Format: Trade Paperback, 128 pages
On Sale: April 3, 1991
Price: $10.00
In his second novel, Baker turns a young father's feeding-time reverie into a catalog of the minutiae of domestic love. Read more >
Format: Trade Paperback, 128 pages
On Sale: April 3, 1991
Price: $10.00
In his second novel, Baker turns a young father's feeding-time reverie into a catalog of the minutiae of domestic love. Read more >
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A Box of Matches
Format: Trade Paperback, 192 pages
On Sale: March 9, 2004
Price: $12.95
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.
What Emmett thinks about is the subject... Read more >
Format: Trade Paperback, 192 pages
On Sale: March 9, 2004
Price: $12.95
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.
What Emmett thinks about is the subject... Read more >
Also available as an
eBook.
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The Everlasting Story of Nory
Format: Trade Paperback, 240 pages
On Sale: March 30, 1999
Price: $12.00
Our supreme fabulist of the ordinary now turns his attention on a 9-year-old American girl and produces a novel as enchantingly idiosyncratic as any he has written. Nory Winslow wants to be a dentist or a designer of pop-up books. She likes telling stories and inventing dolls. She has nightmares about... Read more >
Format: Trade Paperback, 240 pages
On Sale: March 30, 1999
Price: $12.00
Our supreme fabulist of the ordinary now turns his attention on a 9-year-old American girl and produces a novel as enchantingly idiosyncratic as any he has written. Nory Winslow wants to be a dentist or a designer of pop-up books. She likes telling stories and inventing dolls. She has nightmares about... Read more >
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Checkpoint
Format: Trade Paperback, 128 pages
On Sale: April 12, 2005
Price: $10.00
From Nicholson Baker, best-selling author of Vox and the most original writer of his generation, his most controversial novel yet. Read more >
Format: Trade Paperback, 128 pages
On Sale: April 12, 2005
Price: $10.00
From Nicholson Baker, best-selling author of Vox and the most original writer of his generation, his most controversial novel yet. Read more >
Also available as an
eBook.
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Vintage Baker
Format: Trade Paperback, 208 pages
On Sale: September 14, 2004
Price: $9.95
Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award, Nicholson Baker has established himself as one of our most brilliant observers of everyday experience. With his keen perception, flawless prose, and endless wit, he has composed both fiction and nonfiction that has become an essential part of our literature.
Vintage Baker contains generous... Read more >
Format: Trade Paperback, 208 pages
On Sale: September 14, 2004
Price: $9.95
Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award, Nicholson Baker has established himself as one of our most brilliant observers of everyday experience. With his keen perception, flawless prose, and endless wit, he has composed both fiction and nonfiction that has become an essential part of our literature.
Vintage Baker contains generous... Read more >
Also available as an
eBook.
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Vintage Baker
Format: eBook, 208 pages
On Sale: December 18, 2007
Price: $9.95
Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award, Nicholson Baker has established himself as one of our most brilliant observers of everyday experience. With his keen perception, flawless prose, and endless wit, he has composed both fiction and nonfiction that has become an essential part of our literature.
Vintage Baker contains generous... Read more >
Format: eBook, 208 pages
On Sale: December 18, 2007
Price: $9.95
Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award, Nicholson Baker has established himself as one of our most brilliant observers of everyday experience. With his keen perception, flawless prose, and endless wit, he has composed both fiction and nonfiction that has become an essential part of our literature.
Vintage Baker contains generous... Read more >
Also available as a
trade paperback.
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Double Fold
Format: eBook
On Sale: August 13, 2002
Price: $14.00
Since the 1950s, our country’s greatest libraries have, as a matter of common practice, dismantled their collections of original bound newspapers and so-called brittle books, replacing them with microfilmed copies. The marketing of the brittle-paper crisis and the real motives behind it are the subject of this passionately argued book, in... Read more >
Format: eBook
On Sale: August 13, 2002
Price: $14.00
Since the 1950s, our country’s greatest libraries have, as a matter of common practice, dismantled their collections of original bound newspapers and so-called brittle books, replacing them with microfilmed copies. The marketing of the brittle-paper crisis and the real motives behind it are the subject of this passionately argued book, in... Read more >
Also available as a
trade paperback.
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Checkpoint
Format: eBook
On Sale: August 10, 2004
Price: $10.00
From Nicholson Baker, best-selling author of Vox and the most original writer of his generation, his most audacious novel yet.
Meet Jay.
Meet Ben.
Jay has summoned his old friend Ben to a hotel room not far from the nation’s capitol. During the course of an afternoon, they will share a... Read more >
Format: eBook
On Sale: August 10, 2004
Price: $10.00
From Nicholson Baker, best-selling author of Vox and the most original writer of his generation, his most audacious novel yet.
Meet Jay.
Meet Ben.
Jay has summoned his old friend Ben to a hotel room not far from the nation’s capitol. During the course of an afternoon, they will share a... Read more >
Also available as a
trade paperback.
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A Box of Matches
Format: eBook
On Sale: March 9, 2004
Price: $12.95
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.
What Emmett thinks about is the subject... Read more >
Format: eBook
On Sale: March 9, 2004
Price: $12.95
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.
What Emmett thinks about is the subject... Read more >
Also available as a
trade paperback.
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