'Nicholson Baker is our foremost authority on life's unexamined routines, our laureate of ritual' Scotland on Sunday
A man gets up earlier and earlier each day dresses in the dark makes his coffee and lights the fire with a box of matches. Then he rummages through the thoughts that crowd his head and preoccupy him. Here is mid-life domesticated man whose thoughts veer brilliantly from love and marriage to firelighters and suicide in the twinkling of an eye.
This is Baker at his best humorous and observant revealing the underlying truths about the ephemerality of life the joy of small things the darkness just the other side of everyday life - all human life in a box of matches.
Nicholson Baker is the author of nine novels and four works of nonfiction, including Double Fold, which won a National Book Critics Circle Award, and House of Holes, a New York Times Notable Book of the Year. His work has appeared inTheNew Yorker, Harpers, and The New York Review of Books.He lives in Maine with his family.
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