The Everlasting Story Of Nory

Author : Nicholson Baker
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2011-08-24
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780307807526

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The Everlasting Story of Nory by Nicholson Baker Pdf

Our supreme fabulist of the ordinary now turns his attention on a 9-year-old American girl and produces a novel as enchantingly idiosyncratic as any he has written. Nory Winslow wants to be a dentist or a designer of pop-up books. She likes telling stories and inventing dolls. She has nightmares about teeth, which may explain her career choice. She is going to school in England, where she is mocked for her accent and her friendship with an unpopular girl, and she has made it through the year without crying. Nicholson Baker follows Nory as she interacts with her parents and peers, thinks about God and death-watch beetles, and dreams of cows with pointed teeth. In this precocious child he gives us a heroine as canny and as whimsical as Lewis Carroll's Alice and evokes childhood in all its luminous weirdness.

Author : Nicholson Baker
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Child psychology
ISBN : 0701166908

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The Everlasting Story of Nory by Nicholson Baker Pdf

Nory is a nine-year-old American girl spending a year in an English cathedral town, based closely on Ely. She relates her impressions, tells us her favourite stories and dreams, comes to terms with the intricate politics of school friendships and explores the town.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 1998-05-20
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0676545289

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The Everlasting Story of Nory by Anonim Pdf

Author : Arthur Michael Saltzman
Publisher : Univ of South Carolina Press
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 157003303X

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Understanding Nicholson Baker by Arthur Michael Saltzman Pdf

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.

Author : J.C. Hallman
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2016-03-29
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781451682014

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B & Me by J.C. Hallman Pdf

“A love letter to the book as a physical object, a source of intellectual ardor, and a form of emotional salvation” (Salon)—and a nod to U and I, Nicholson Baker’s classic memoir about John Updike—from an award-winning author called “wonderfully bright” by The New York Times Book Review. Nearly twenty-five years ago, Nicholson Baker wrote U and I, the fretful and handwringing—but also groundbreaking—tale of his literary relationship with John Updike. U and I inspired a whole sub-genre of engaging writing about reading, but what no story of this type has ever done is tell its tale from the moment of conception, that moment when you realize that there is writer out there in the world that you must read. B & Me is that story, the story of J.C. Hallman discovering and reading Nicholson Baker…and discovering himself in the process. Our relationship to books in the digital age, the role of art in an increasingly commodified world, the power great writing has to change us, these are at the core of Hallman’s investigation of Baker—questions he’s grappled with, values he’s come to doubt. But in reading Baker’s work, Hallman discovers the key to overcoming the malaise that had been plaguing him, through the books themselves and what he finds and contemplates in his attempts to understand them and their enigmatic author. B & Me is literary self-archaeology: an irreverent, incisive story of one reader’s desperate quest to restore passion to literature, and all the things he learns along the way. “A wide-ranging and idiosyncratic career survey for Nicholson Baker’s work, a love letter to the act of reading, and a commentary on the modern novel, this is a book that readers will absolutely adore” (Publishers Weekly, starred review).

Author : Nicholson Baker
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2004-03-09
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781400076338

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A Box of Matches by Nicholson Baker Pdf

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 further 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.

Author : Donald Powers
Publisher : African Books Collective
Page : 170 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2022-08-05
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781928466178

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Become a Better Writer by Donald Powers Pdf

Improving the quality of your writing starts with rethinking your assumptions and developing healthier writing habits. This book will help you do both. Become a Better Writer: How to Write with Clarity and Simplicity is a practical guide for those who wish to write more clearly and concisely. Drawing on their extensive experience as writers and editors, the authors discuss tools and tips for making your writing accessible and meaningful to your target audience. The book is readable and engaging, covering different kinds of writing (including reports, essays, emails, novels and speeches) across a wide range of subjects. The examples discussed are derived from real-world material and are particularly relevant to the African context. The book will be especially useful to writers of non-fiction.

Author : Nicholson Baker
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2009-09-08
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781416572442

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The Anthologist by Nicholson Baker Pdf

"The Anthologist" captures all the warmth, wit, and extraordinary prose stylethat have made Baker--a National Book Critics Circle Award-winning author--anAmerican master.

Author : Nicholson Baker
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2011-08-24
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780307807489

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Vox by Nicholson Baker Pdf

NATIONAL BESTSELLER Vox is a novel that remaps the territory of sex—sex solitary and telephonic, lyrical and profane, comfortable and dangerous. It is an erotic classic that places Nicholson Baker firmly in the first rank of major American writers.

Author : Nicholson Baker
Publisher : Random House
Page : 386 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Libraries
ISBN : 9780099429036

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Double Fold by Nicholson Baker Pdf

Since the 1950s, some of the greatest libraries have dismantled much of their collections of original bound newspapers and books, replacing them with microfilmed copies. In this work the real motives behind the dismantling of our heritage is examined.

Author : Nicholson Baker
Publisher : Open Road + Grove/Atlantic
Page : 190 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2010-07-13
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780802198228

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The Mezzanine by Nicholson Baker Pdf

A National Book Critics Circle Award–winner elevates the ordinary events that occur to a man on his lunch hour into “a constant delight” of a novel (The Boston Globe). In this startling, witty, and inexhaustibly inventive novel, New York Times–bestselling author Nicholson Baker uses a one-story escalator ride as the occasion for a dazzling reappraisal of everyday objects and rituals. From the humble milk carton to the act of tying one’s shoes, The Mezzanine at once defamiliarizes the familiar world and endows it with loopy and euphoric poetry. Baker’s accounts of the ordinary become extraordinary through his sharp storytelling and his unconventional, conversational style. At first glance, The Mezzanine appears to be a book about nothing. In reality, it is a brilliant celebration of things, simultaneously demonstrating the value of reflection and the importance of everyday human experiences. “A very funny book . . . Its 135 pages probably contain more insight into life as we live it today than anything currently on the best-seller list.” —The New York Times “Captures the spirit of American corporate life and invests it with a passion and sympathy that is entirely unexpected.” —The Seattle Times “Among the year’s best.” —The Boston Globe “Baker writes with appealing charm . . . [He] clowns and shows off . . . rambles and pounces hard; he says acute things, extravagant things, terribly funny things.” —Los Angeles Times Book Review “Wonderfully readable, in fact gripping, with surprising bursts of recognition, humor and wonder.” —The Washington Post Book World

Author : Brian W. Shaffer
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 1581 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2011-01-18
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781405192446

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The Encyclopedia of Twentieth-Century Fiction, 3 Volume Set by Brian W. Shaffer Pdf

This Encyclopedia offers an indispensable reference guide to twentieth-century fiction in the English-language. With nearly 500 contributors and over one million words, it is the most comprehensive and authoritative reference guide to twentieth-century fiction in the English language. Contains over 500 entries of 1000-3000 words written in lucid, jargon-free prose, by an international cast of leading scholars Arranged in three volumes covering British and Irish Fiction, American Fiction, and World Fiction, with each volume edited by a leading scholar in the field Entries cover major writers (such as Saul Bellow, Raymond Chandler, John Steinbeck, Virginia Woolf, A.S. Byatt, Samual Beckett, D.H. Lawrence, Zadie Smith, Salman Rushdie, V.S. Naipaul, Nadine Gordimer, Alice Munro, Chinua Achebe, J.M. Coetzee, and Ngûgî Wa Thiong’o) and their key works Examines the genres and sub-genres of fiction in English across the twentieth century (including crime fiction, Sci-Fi, chick lit, the noir novel, and the avant-garde novel) as well as the major movements, debates, and rubrics within the field, such as censorship, globalization, modernist fiction, fiction and the film industry, and the fiction of migration, diaspora, and exile

Author : Tracey Watson
Publisher : Contemporary Authors New Revis
Page : 474 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2005-06
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0787678929

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Contemporary Authors New Revision Series by Tracey Watson Pdf

In response to the escalating need for up-to-date information on writers, Contemporary Authors(R) New Revision Series brings researchers the most recent data on the worlds most-popular authors. These exciting and unique author profiles are essential to your holdings because sketches are entirely revised and up-to-date, and completely replace the original Contemporary Authors(R) entries. For your convenience, a soft-cover cumulative index is sent biannually.

Author : Nicholson Baker
Publisher : National Geographic Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 1992-02-04
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780679735755

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U and I by Nicholson Baker Pdf

Baker muses on the creative process via his obsession with John Updike.

Author : Nicholson Baker
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2011-08-24
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780307807496

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The Fermata by Nicholson Baker Pdf

Having turned phone sex into the subject of an astonishing national bestseller in Vox, Baker now outdoes himself with an outrageously arousing, acrobatically stylish "X-rated sci-fi fantasy that leaves Vox seeming more like mere fiber-optic foreplay" (Seattle Times). "Sparkling."--San Francisco Chronicle.