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- catalog abstract ""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."--Jacket.".
- catalog contributor b11215815.
- catalog created "c1999.".
- catalog date "1999".
- catalog date "c1999.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c1999.".
- catalog description ""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."--Jacket.".
- catalog description ""Works by Nicholson Baker": p. [198]-199.".
- catalog description "Editor's preface -- Preface -- A Columbus of the near-at-hand -- The mezzanine -- Room temperature -- U and I: a true story -- Vox -- The fermata -- Uncollected works -- The size of thoughts: essays and other lumber -- The everlasting story of Nory -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. [198]-202) and index.".
- catalog extent "xiii, 209 p. ;".
- catalog identifier "157003303X".
- catalog isPartOf "Understanding contemporary American literature".
- catalog issued "1999".
- catalog issued "c1999.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Columbia : University of South Carolina Press,".
- catalog subject "813/.54 21".
- catalog subject "Baker, Nicholson Criticism and interpretation.".
- catalog subject "PS3552.A4325 Z88 1999".
- catalog tableOfContents "Editor's preface -- Preface -- A Columbus of the near-at-hand -- The mezzanine -- Room temperature -- U and I: a true story -- Vox -- The fermata -- Uncollected works -- The size of thoughts: essays and other lumber -- The everlasting story of Nory -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.".
- catalog title "Understanding Nicholson Baker / Arthur Saltzman.".
- catalog type "Criticism, interpretation, etc. fast".
- catalog type "text".