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FICTION
Released: May 1, 1998
THE EVERLASTING STORY OF NORY
by Nicholson Baker
"It rings wrong, totally. (Author tour)"
The author of The Fermata (1994), among others, offers an extended dramatic monologue by a nine-year-old American girl living in England, a plotless series of riffs exploring the curiosities of a life among English-speaking foreigners. Read full book review >
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FICTION
Released: Feb. 1, 1994
THE FERMATA
by Nicholson Baker
"But drama is drama and porn porn, this among the most literary-respectable of the latter that money can buy."
 The talented Baker returns with sex for sophisticates, making Vox (1992) seem like a warmup exercise. Read full book review >
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FICTION
Released: Feb. 14, 1992
VOX
by Nicholson Baker
"First Harold Brodkey as the Mahler, the Liszt, of the hand-job, now Nicholson Baker as its David Letterman."
 On a private adult phone-sex line, Jim, a West Coaster in his late 20s, connects with East Coast Abby. Read full book review >
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FICTION
Released: Aug. 9, 2011
HOUSE OF HOLES: A BOOK OF RAUNCH
by Nicholson Baker
"Baker explores a fine line between eroticism and pornography here, and were it not for his wit and verbal play, the latter would win out."
Baker returns to the eroticism of his earlier Vox (1995) and The Fermata (1994) but kicks it up about a dozen notches. Read full book review >