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Vox by Nicholson Baker
RRP: $17.53Booksplease Price: $13.10Vox is the story of two voices, his and hers: two strangers who, having met on a telephone chat-line, switch to a private, one-on-one connection - and find it impossible to hang up. Literate,... -
The Fermata by Nicholson Baker 9780679759331
RRP: $37.05Booksplease Price: $28.51Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780679759331Author Nicholson BakerFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Random House IncPublisher... -
Mezzanine Nicholson Baker 9780802168153
Booksplease Price: $25.62Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Vox by Nicholson Baker 9780679742111
RRP: $35.10Booksplease Price: $28.70Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780679742111Author Nicholson BakerFormat PaperbackPage Count 176Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher Random... -
The Mezzanine by Nicholson Baker 9781783786381
RRP: $19.48Booksplease Price: $14.25The Mezzanine is the story of one man's lunch hour. Pondering life's littlest questions - why does one shoelace always wear out before the other? Whatever happened to the paper drinking straw - our... -
Room Temperature Nicholson Baker 9781847083494
RRP: $15.58Booksplease Price: $11.74On an autumn day, at around three-fifteen in the afternoon, Mike sits down in the rocking chair to feed his infant daughter, Bug. The novel that unfolds over the next twenty minutes of Mike's life is... -
A Box of Matches by Nicholson Baker 9780375706035
RRP: $37.05Booksplease Price: $26.31Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780375706035Author Nicholson BakerFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher Random... -
Checkpoint: A Novel by Nicholson Baker 9781400079858
RRP: $27.30Booksplease Price: $19.89Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781400079858Author Nicholson BakerFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher Random... -
Room Temperature by Nicholson Baker 9780802144911
RRP: $25.33Booksplease Price: $21.10Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780802144911Author Nicholson BakerFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint Grove Press / Atlantic... -
House of Holes by Nicholson Baker 9781439189528
RRP: $35.08Booksplease Price: $27.07Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781439189528Author Nicholson BakerFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint Simon & SchusterPublisher... -
The Everlasting Story of Nory by Nicholson Baker 9780679763758
RRP: $33.15Booksplease Price: $23.30Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780679763758Author Nicholson BakerFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher Random... -
U & I: A True Story by Nicholson Baker
RRP: $17.53Booksplease Price: $13.01When Nicholson Baker, one of the most linguistically talented writers in America, set out to write a book about John Updike, the result was no ordinary biography. Instead Baker's account of his... -
The Way the World Works: Essays by Nicholson Baker 9781416572480
RRP: $40.93Booksplease Price: $28.00Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781416572480Author BakerFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint Simon & SchusterPublisher Simon &... -
U and I: A True Story by Nicholson Baker 9780679735755
RRP: $37.05Booksplease Price: $26.91Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780679735755Author Nicholson BakerFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint Ballantine Books Inc... -
Double Fold: Libraries and the Assault on Paper by Nicholson Baker 9780375726217
RRP: $50.70Booksplease Price: $37.52Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of National Book Critics Circle Awards.Book InformationISBN 9780375726217Author Nicholson BakerFormat... -
Substitute: Going to School with a Thousand Kids by Nicholson Baker 9780399160998
RRP: $58.50Booksplease Price: $49.00Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780399160998Author Nicholson BakerFormat PaperbackPage Count 736Imprint Penguin USAPublisher Penguin... -
The Size of Thoughts: Essays and Other Lumber by Nicholson Baker 9780679776246
RRP: $44.85Booksplease Price: $33.50Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780679776246Author Nicholson BakerFormat PaperbackPage Count 368Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher Random... -
Vandals in the Stacks?: A Response to Nicholson Baker's Assault on Libraries by Richard J. Cox 9780313323447
Booksplease Price: $158.87Libraries and archives have violated their public trust, argues Nicholson Baker in his controversial book ^IDouble Fold^R, by destroying traditional books, newspapers, and other paper-based... -
Human Smoke: The Beginnings of World War II, the End of Civilization by Nicholson Baker 9781416572466
Booksplease Price: $37.64Synopsis coming soon.......Book InformationISBN 9781416572466Author Nicholson BakerFormat PaperbackPage Count 576Imprint Simon Spotlight EntertainmentPublisher Simon & SchusterWeight(grams)... -
Object-Oriented Narratology by Marie-Laure Ryan 9781496238795
RRP: $93.60Booksplease Price: $77.81The quick spread of posthumanism and of critiques of anthropomorphism in the past few decades has resulted in greater attention to concrete objects in critical theories and in philosophy. This new... -
Bedtime Stories for Grown-ups by Ben Holden 9781471153754
RRP: $33.13Booksplease Price: $24.73There are few more precious routines than that of the bedtime story. So why do we discard this invaluable ritual as grown-ups to the detriment of our well-being and good health? In this... -
Thinking Design Through Literature by Susan Yelavich
RRP: $89.68Booksplease Price: $84.01This book deploys literature to explore the social lives of objects and places. The first book of its kind, it embraces things as diverse as escalators, coins, skyscrapers, pottery, radios, and... -
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"We Search the Past ... for Our Own Lost Selves.": Representations of Historical Experience in Recent American Fiction by Marta Koval 9783631626108
RRP: $79.76Booksplease Price: $67.70The book is a study of the most recent American fiction, published at the turn of the 21th century, which demonstrates a renewed interest in the matters of history. Using the concepts of memory and... -
A Theology Of Reading: The Hermeneutics Of Love Alan Jacobs 9780813365664
RRP: $97.48Booksplease Price: $90.66If the whole of the Christian life is to be governed by the "law of love"-the twofold love of God and one's neighbor-what might it mean to read lovingly? That is the question that drives this unique... -
Maximalism in Contemporary American Literature: The Uses of Detail by Nick Levey
RRP: $89.68Booksplease Price: $84.01This book begins a new and foundational discussion of maximalism by investigating how the treatment of detail in contemporary literature impels readers to navigate, tolerate, and enrich the cultural... -
John Updike Remembered: Friends, Family and Colleagues Reflect on the Writer and the Man Jack A. De Bellis 9781476667065
RRP: $42.88Booksplease Price: $38.20Who was John Updike? Fifty-three commentators have much to tell us. They reveal Updike through anecdote, observation, and insight. Their memories reveal Updike the high school prankster, the golfer,... -
The Metanarrative Hall of Mirrors: Reflex Action in Fiction and Film Professor or Dr. Garrett Stewart (James O. Freedman Professor of Letters, University of Iowa, USA) 9781501388781
Booksplease Price: $48.03With its laser-focus on the verbal and visual infrastructure of narrative, The Metanarrative Hall of Mirrors is the first sustained comparative study of how image patterns are tracked in prose and... -
The Metanarrative Hall of Mirrors: Reflex Action in Fiction and Film by Professor or Dr. Garrett Stewart 9781501388798
Booksplease Price: $149.19With its laser-focus on the verbal and visual infrastructure of narrative, The Metanarrative Hall of Mirrors is the first sustained comparative study of how image patterns are tracked in prose and... -
Then We Came to the End: A Novel by Joshua Ferris 9780316016391
RRP: $27.28Booksplease Price: $27.20No one knows us quite the same way as the men and women who sit beside us in department meetings and crowd the office refrigerator with their labeled yogurts. Every office is a family of sorts, and... -
Best of Myles: A Selection from Cruskeen Lawn: Best of Myles by Flann O'Brien 9780007247189
RRP: $25.33Booksplease Price: $18.68Under the pseudonym Myles na Gopaleen, Flann O' Brien wrote a daily column in the 'Irish Times' called 'Cruiskeen Lawn' for over twenty years which hilariously satirised the absurdities and... -
The Selected Works of T.S. Spivet by Reif Larsen
RRP: $31.18Booksplease Price: $24.90T.S. Spivet is a genius mapmaker who lives on a ranch in Montana. His father is a silent cowboy and his mother is a scientist who for the last twenty years has been looking for a mythical species of... -
Jawbreaker's 24 Hour Revenge Therapy by Ronen Givony
RRP: $19.48Booksplease Price: $16.65Two and a half decades on, Jawbreaker's 24 Hour Revenge Therapy (1993-94) is the rare album to have lost none of its original loyalty, affection, and reverence. If anything, today, the cult of... -
Visiting Mrs Nabokov And Other Excursions by Martin Amis
RRP: $33.13Booksplease Price: $25.66Fuelled by innumerable cigarettes, Martin Amis provides dazzling portraits of contemporaries and mentors alike: Larkin and Rushdie; Greene and Pritchett; Ballard and Burgess and Nicholson Baker; John... -
Hexis by Charlene Elsby 9781944866525
RRP: $27.28Booksplease Price: $19.27I'm not relentless. "Relentless" makes it sound like there's something called "relent" and that I'm lacking it. In that sense, I'm not relentless, but perhaps I'm unrelenting. I could relent if I... -
Audio Book: Essays on Sound Technologies in Narrative Fiction by Mikko Keskinen 9780739118313
Booksplease Price: $186.21Audio Book deals with the ways in which the auditory-voices, sounds, noises-is represented in postphonograph narrative fiction. More specifically, it examines how the various technologies enabling... -
Sock by Kim Adrian
RRP: $19.48Booksplease Price: $16.65Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things. Who ponders the sock? This common object is something people tug on and take off daily... -
Second Read: Writers Look Back at Classic Works of Reportage by James Marcus 9780231159319
RRP: $39.00Booksplease Price: $33.25The Columbia Journalism Review's Second Read series features distinguished journalists revisiting key works of reportage. Launched in 2004 by John Palattella, who was then editor of the magazine's... -
Second Read: Writers Look Back at Classic Works of Reportage by James Marcus 9780231159302
RRP: $163.80Booksplease Price: $129.36The Columbia Journalism Review's Second Read series features distinguished journalists revisiting key works of reportage. Launched in 2004 by John Palattella, who was then editor of the magazine's... -
Updike in Cincinnati: A Literary Performance by James Schiff 9780821417485
Booksplease Price: $46.61For two spring days in 2001, John Updike visited Cincinnati, Ohio, engaging and charming his audiences, reading from his fiction, fielding questions, sitting for an interview, participating in a... -
On Browsing by Jason Guriel
RRP: $19.48Booksplease Price: $14.43Nominated for the 2023 Heritage Toronto Book AwardA defense of the dying art of losing an afternoon-and gaining new appreciation-amidst the bins and shelves of bricks-and-mortar shops.Written during...