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The Size of Thoughts: Essays and Other Lumber

by Nicholson Baker

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Publisher Comments:

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.
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About the Author

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

ISBN:
9780679776246
Subtitle:
Essays and Other Lumber
Author:
Baker, Nicholson
Publisher:
Vintage Books USA
Location:
New York :
Subject:
Literary
Subject:
Fiction
Subject:
Essays
Subject:
Short Stories (single author)
Subject:
American essays
Edition Description:
1st Vintage Books ed.
Publication Date:
February 1997
Binding:
Paperback
Language:
English
Illustrations:
Yes
Pages:
368
Dimensions:
802x526x79 68
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