A Box of Matches Nicholson Baker,
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 0099448386
DDC: 813
Edition: Paperback; 2004-01-01
Summary:
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 of this wise and
closely observed novel, which covers vast distances while moving no
farther than Emmett’s hearth and home. Nicholson Baker’s
extraordinary ability to describe and celebrate life in all its rich
ordinariness has never been so beautifully achieved.Baker won the
National Book Critics Circle Award for Double Fold: Libraries and the
Assault on Paper. He now returns to fiction with this lovely book,
reminiscent of the early novels—Room Temperature and The
Mezzanine—that established his reputation.
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