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October, 20 author antoine wilson suggests bypassing proust in favor of a far shorter choice. The mezzanine 1988 is the first novel by american writer nicholson baker. Books i just read the mezzanine, by nicholson baker. Pdf epub the mezzanine download by nicholson baker. Libraries and the assault on paper, for which he won the 2001 national book critics circle award. All that is solid melts into air, as marx or whoever said. Nicholson baker is the author of nine novels and four works of nonfiction, including double fold, which won a national book critics circle award, and house of holes, a new york times notable book of the year. In this startling, witty, and inexhaustibly inventive novel, new york timesbestselling author nicholson baker uses a onestory escalator ride as the occasion for a dazzling reappraisal of everyday objects and rituals. When nicholson baker chronicled, in the mezzanine, a single lunch break in the life of howie, a young office worker, he was hailed as. Follows the journey of the hero up the escalator and learn why straws dont sink in milk cartons. The plot is thin but the reminisces and vignettes and footnotes are interesting in and of themselves through baker s use of language. Nicholson baker s 1988 novel, which shares the internal. By nicholson baker the mezzanine by nicholson baker turns an ordinary ride up an office escalator into a meditation on our relations with familiar objectsshoelaces, straws, and more. Publication date 1990 topics men, men fiction united states publisher.
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