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Human Smoke: The Beginnings of World War II, The End of Civilization by Nicholson Baker
30.00 NZD
Category: History
At a time when the West seems ever more eager to call on military aggression as a means of securing international peace, Nicholson Baker's provocative narrative exploring the political misjudgements and personal biases that gave birth to the terrifying consequences of the Second World War could not ...Show more
The Anthologist by Nicholson Baker
30.00 NZD
Category: General Fiction | Reading Level: General Adult
The Anthologist, is narrated by Paul Chowder, a poet of some little reknown who is sitting in his barn most of the time trying to write the introduction to a new anthology of poetry called Only Rhyme. He's having a hard time getting started because his career is falling apart, his girlfriend Roz has rec ...Show more
The Fermata by Nicholson Baker
18.95 NZD
21.95 (13% off)
Category: Fiction
Arno Strine, a modest temporary typist, has perfected the knack of stopping time in its tracks and taking women's clothes off; he is hard at work on his autobiography, , which proves in the telling to be a provocative, very funny and altogether morally confused piece of work.
The Way the World Works by Nicholson Baker
26.00 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
In The Way the World Works, Nicholson Baker ranges over the map of life to examine what ails us, what eases our pain, and what gives us joy. Baker, recently hailed as "one of the most consistently enticing writers of our time" by The New York Times moves from political controversy to the intimacy of hi ...Show more
Vox by Nicholson Baker
24.99 NZD
Category: General Fiction
Vox 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, humorous, erotic, Vox is a classic of bedtime reading.
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