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Vintage Baker

By Nicholson Baker

By Nicholson Baker

By Nicholson Baker

By Nicholson Baker

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Paperback $9.95

Sep 14, 2004 | ISBN 9781400078608

Ebook $8.99

Dec 18, 2007 | ISBN 9780307429940

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    About Vintage Baker

    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 selections from the novels Vox, The Fermata, The Mezzanine, and A Box of Matches; essays from The Size of Thoughts; and portions of the NBCC award winner Doublefold.

    Vintage Readers are a perfect introduction to some of the great modern writers, presented in attractive, affordable paperback editions.

    About Vintage Baker

    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 selections from the novels Vox, The Fermata, The Mezzanine, and A Box of Matches; essays from The Size of Thoughts; and portions of the NBCC award winner Doublefold.

    Vintage Readers are a perfect introduction to some of the great modern writers, presented in attractive, affordable paperback editions.

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    About Nicholson Baker

    Nicholson Baker is the author of ten novels and numerous works of nonfiction, including Baseless, The Anthologist, The Mezzanine, and Human Smoke. He has won the National Book Critics Circle Award, the Hermann Hesse Prize, and a Katherine Anne Porter… More about Nicholson Baker

    About Nicholson Baker

    Nicholson Baker is the author of ten novels and numerous works of nonfiction, including Baseless, The Anthologist, The Mezzanine, and Human Smoke. He has won the National Book Critics Circle Award, the Hermann Hesse Prize, and a Katherine Anne Porter… More about Nicholson Baker

    Product Details

    Category: Literary Fiction

    Paperback | $9.95
    Published by Vintage
    Sep 14, 2004 | 208 Pages | 5-3/16 x 8 | ISBN 9781400078608

    Category: Literary Fiction

    Ebook | $8.99
    Published by Vintage
    Dec 18, 2007 | 208 Pages | ISBN 9780307429940

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    “Baker writes with appealing charm. He clowns and shows off rambles and pounces hard; he says acute things, extravagant things, terribly funny things.” —Los Angeles Times Book Review

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