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Giving his infant daughter her afternoon bottle, Mike's thoughts wander to the special things he remembers about his own childhood
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Nicholson Baker writes in 360-degree Sensurround--his descriptions of the seemingly banal awakening the most jaded of senses into recognition, admiration, and amusement. In Room Temperature, his self-deprecating, endlessly curious narrator is at home giving his baby girl a bottle and allowing his mind to wander. Uppermost in his thoughts are his wife and daughter, but there is also that obsession with commas and some concern with tiny taboos like nose-picking and stealing change from his parents. Truth-telling is the operative mode; at one point he tries to get his wife to explain a doodle by quoting a review of early Yeats: "Always true is always new." Room Temperature is a rare novel of domestic pleasure and stability, with a twist. "Was there ever a limit between us? Would disgust ever outweigh love?" Baker's alter ego asks, and seems determined to find out.
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In his second novel, Baker turns a young father's feeding-time reverie into a catalog of the minutiae of domestic love.
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- PublisherGranta/Penguin
- Publication date1991
- ISBN 10 0140140212
- ISBN 13 9780140140217
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Book Description Condition: Gut. 2. Auflage. 116 Seiten. Guter Zustand. A story in which the author examines the little details of home life. The action takes place in the moments before, during and after the feeding of Bug, the baby. The author's previous novel was called "The Mezzanine". Seiten papierbedingt leicht gebräunt. Guter Zustand. Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 150 20 cm. Taschenbuch. Kartoniert. Seller Inventory # 15749
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