Synopses & Reviews
The Mezzanine is the story of one man's lunch hour. It addresses the big questions of corporate life in the grand manner: Why does one shoe-lace always wear out before the other? Whose genius lies behind the wing-flap spout on the milk carton? Whatever happened to the paper drinking-straw?
Review
"A seriously funny book. Things (shoe-laces, drinking straws, ear-plugs) will never seem the same again." Salman Rushdie
Review
"The line between the footnotes and the main text...tends to blur, with the reader drawn repeatedly into the highly detailed odysseys of the footnotes and then pulled back out. A very funny, enjoyable novel." Library Journal
About the Author
Nicholson Baker has published five novels, including Vox, The Fermata and The Everlasting Story of Nory, and several works of nonfiction, including The Size of Thoughts and Double Fold: Libraries and the Assault on Paper. He directs the American Newspaper Repository. He lives in Maine with his wife and two children.