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9780679776246

The Size of Thoughts Essays and Other Lumber

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  • ISBN13:

    9780679776246

  • ISBN10:

    0679776249

  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 1997-02-25
  • Publisher: Vintage

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Summary

The bestselling author of Vox and The Fermata devotes his hyperdriven curiosity and magnificently baroque prose to the fossils of punctuation and the lexicography of smut, delivering to readers a provocative and often hilarious celebration of the neglected aspects of our experience. 368 pp. 15,000 print.

Author Biography

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

Table of Contents

Changes of Mindp. 3
The Size of Thoughtsp. 10
Rarityp. 18
Model Airplanesp. 27
The Protectorp. 36
Clip Artp. 51
Reading Aloudp. 63
The History of Punctuationp. 70
A Novel by Alan Hollinghurstp. 89
Leading with the Grumperp. 96
The Northern Pedestalp. 111
Weddingp. 115
Mlackp. 117
Recipep. 119
Ice Stormp. 121
Discardsp. 125
Books as Furniturep. 182
Lumberp. 207
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