Understanding Nicholson Baker FROM THE PUBLISHER
Lauded by Vanity Fair as "the best writer of our generation," Nicholson Baker has earned a complex and controversial reputation among contemporary American authors. In addition to being celebrated as a prose miniaturist for such works as The Mezzanine and Room Temperature, Baker is known for highly erotic works such as Vox and The Fermata. In Understanding Nicholson Baker, Arthur Saltzman engages these provocative fictions as well as Baker's nonfiction to show how his seemingly disparate works derive from and demonstrate an unremitting zeal for explicit detail, along with descriptive obsessiveness and linguistic virtuosity.
FROM THE CRITICS
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Like others in the series, this work is intended for the student and for the serious non-academic reader. Saltzman (English, Missouri Southern State College) provides accessible close readings and critical commentary on Baker's writings, including both fiction and non-fiction. Among Baker's works are and . Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknew.com)
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