Room Temperature - Couverture souple

Baker, Nicholson

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0802144918 ISBN 13 : 9780802144911

Editeur : Grove Press / Atlantic Monthly Press, 2010

Synopsis

Nicholson Baker's novel The Mezzanine turned a lunch hour into a postmodern version of The Odyssey. In Room Temperature, originally published by Grove Press in 1984, Baker takes the reader an even greater distance in the course of twenty minutes, although his narrator is obliged to be stationary, as he is giving his baby daughter her bottle. Though all in the room is still, the narrator's mind is not, and in inspired moments of mental flight, Mike's thoughts on his newfound parenthood lead him back to his own childhood and to reflections on the objects of his youth. From glass peanut butter jars to French horns, from typography to courtship, Baker mixes physics and the physical in a style that has earned him accolades throughout his career.

A propos du livre

Biographie de l'auteur

Nicholson Baker has published five novels–The Mezzanine, Room Temperature, Vox, The Fermata, and The Everlasting Story of Nory–and two works of nonfiction, U and I and The Size of Thoughts. He lives with his wife and two children in Maine.

Présentation de l'éditeur

In his second novel, Baker turns a young father's feeding-time reverie into a catalog of the minutiae of domestic love.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Grove Press / Atlantic Monthly Press
• Date d'édition: 2010
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0802144918
• ISBN 13: 9780802144911
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 128
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• Personne responsable: non disponible