A Box of Matches - Nicholson Baker

A Box of Matches

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Buch | Softcover
192 Seiten
2004
Vintage (Verlag)
978-0-09-944838-9 (ISBN)
16,20 inkl. MwSt
A man gets up earlier and earlier each day, dresses in the dark, makes his coffee and lights the fire with a box of matches. Then he rummages through the thoughts that crowd his head and preoccupy him. Here is mid-life domesticated man, whose thoughts veer brilliantly from love and marriage, to firelighters and suicide, in the twinkling of an eye.

This is Baker at his best, humorous and observant, revealing the underlying truths about the ephemerality of life, the joy of small things, the darkness just the other side of everyday life - all human life in a box of matches.

Born in 1957 Nicholson Baker is the author of several acclaimed novels; A Box of Matches, Vox and The Fermata as well as essays, including the campaigning Double Fold for which the New York Times called him 'the Erin Brokovich of the library world'.

Erscheint lt. Verlag 1.1.2004
Verlagsort London
Sprache englisch
Maße 129 x 198 mm
Gewicht 139 g
Themenwelt Literatur Romane / Erzählungen
Literatur Zweisprachige Ausgaben Deutsch / Englisch
ISBN-10 0-09-944838-6 / 0099448386
ISBN-13 978-0-09-944838-9 / 9780099448389
Zustand Neuware
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