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Lauded By Vanity Fair As The Best Writer Of Our Generation, Nicholson Baker Has Earned A Complex And Controversial Reputation Among Contemporary American Authors. In Addition To Being Celebrated As A Prose Miniaturist For Such Works As The Mezzanine And Room Temperature, Baker Is Known For Highly Erotic Works Such As Vox And The Fermata. In Understanding Nicholson Baker, Arthur Saltzman Engages These Provocative Fictions As Well As Baker's Nonfiction To Show How His Seemingly Disparate Works Derive From And Demonstrate An Unremitting Zeal For Explicit Detail, Along With Descriptive Obsessiveness And Linguistic Virtuosity.--jacket. Editor's Preface -- Preface -- A Columbus Of The Near-at-hand -- The Mezzanine -- Room Temperature -- U And I: A True Story -- Vox -- The Fermata -- Uncollected Works -- The Size Of Thoughts: Essays And Other Lumber -- The Everlasting Story Of Nory -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index. Arthur Saltzman. Includes Bibliographical References (p. [198]-202) And Index. Works By Nicholson Baker: P. [198]-199.
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Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Arthur M. Saltzman
- Publisher
- University of South Carolina Press
- Published
- 1999
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781570033032
- Category
- nonfiction
- Subjects
- Literary Criticism, Literary Fiction, Poetry
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