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Baker's first novel recounts one afternoon in the life of an office worker named Howie; or, more precisely, an afternoon in the life of Howie's mind . There are more digressions, asides, and tiny facets than one can imagine fitting into an afternoonor a short novel, for that matter. Each "real" event or actiongetting onto an escalator, for instanceis surrounded by the narrator's meditations on any number of thoughts or processes spawned by that event. A notable departure from traditional novel form is the extensive use of often lengthy footnotes, wherein many of the digressions take place. The line between the footnotes and the main text in fact tends to blur, with the reader drawn repeatedly into the highly detailed odysseys of the footnotes and then pulled back out. A very funny, enjoyable novel by a writer whose work frequently appears in The New Yorker . Jessica Grim, NYPL
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Copyright 1988 Reed Business Information, Inc. -- Dieser Text bezieht sich auf eine vergriffene oder nicht verfügbare Ausgabe dieses Titels.
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Reissued with }U And I, Room Temperature{ and }Vox{ as part of the Granta paperback launch.
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I could not put down this freaking awesome book! This author has a winning combination of lyricism and insight. One might describe him as an autistic poet. It has immediately become one of my three favorite introspection books. (The two others are The Fall by Albert Camus and The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka).
Reading this book is like eating candies. The author comes across as a gentle, perspicacious, fact filled, strange, observer that will change your view of the world forever. Isn't that what the best books can do?
Try it out, you won't be disappointed.
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Nicholson Baker, The Mezzanine (Vintage, 1988)
availability: in print, available through the usual suspects
availability: in print, available through the usual suspects
Nicholson Baker's first novel gives us a day-- okay, half a day-- in the life of an ordinary office worker. It's pretty close to being the typical eighties novel. It's not really about anything. No one makes great personality changes anywhere in the novel. There's only one other character, aside from a few minor ones, sales clerks and the like. The book opens with the main character walking into the lobby of his office building, and ends with him stepping off the escalator onto his office's floor about a minute later. So what is it that differentiates this particular eighties novel from the hundreds of others, and what makes this one better?
The devil, of course, is in the details. While Baker seems as fond of brand names as the rest of his Ellis-McInerney-Janowitz-etc. cronies, they take a backseat to the generic, everyday revelations of life, and
it's amazing that Baker has managed to come up with so much of this stuff that most people never think about. The history of shoelaces. The development of footnotes from the middle ages. The archaeology of the drugstore. Whether you should drink your milk while chewing the chocolate chip cookie, or after swallowing it. This is less a novel than it is a compendium of silly, trivial facts and opinions, and if you gain pleasure from wandering through trivia websites and the like, this book
is going to be a short, easy pleasure trip through things that no one else has thought to write about. If you demand plot, theme, and action, though, this is probably not a book for you. I found it wonderful. *** 1/2
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The narrator of this novel is nuts.... but don't let that stop you from reading this wonderful book! Just be aware it might take you a little while to get comfortable with the quirky way the protatgonist has of thinking about things. After the first ten pages I was laughing out loud but after thirty pages I almost put it down because I didn't know if I could keep handling 2 page footnotes on, say, the physics of what makes shoelaces break! But I stayed with the book and I was glad I did. It is a pleasure to keep up with the narrator as his mind meanders through the minutiae of everyday life. He has a childlike curiosity about the world. Everything fascinates him! He is a lucky man because he enjoys understanding the little things in life and life presents a neverending supply of little things to think about. This is a guy who will never be bored! I also get the feeling that this is the way the mind of a really good scientist works, analytical but childlike as well. Want to know if you will like this book? Here is one sentence, expressing the narrator's admiration for the way the old-style packages of Jiffy Pop popcorn were engineered: "Jiffy Pop was the finest example of the whole aluminous genre: a package inspired by the fry pan whose handle is also the hook it hangs from in the store, with a maelstrom of swirled foil on the top that, subjected to the subversion of the exploding kernels, first by the direct collisions of discrete corns and then in a general indirect uplift of the total volume of potentiated cellulose, gradually unfurls its dome, turning slowly as it despirals itself, providing in its gradual expansion a graspable, slow-motion version of what each erumpent particle of corn is undergoing invisibly and instantaneously beneath it." Whoooh! I can see where this book would be the type of thing you either love or hate, so if the above sentence made you squirm, stay away. But if a smile emerged while you read it I think you will enjoy "The Mezzanine" as much as I did.
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A masterpiece
If you're the kind of person who notices what other miss and/or take for granted but is bursting to discuss it all, you'll love this. If you work in an office, even better. Lesen Sie weiter...
Veröffentlicht am 21. April 2000 von Michael
"Funny that God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen is in a minor key.."
I've wondered that every Christmas for most of my life. It's a jolly song about "tidings of comfort and joy" that sounds, due to the minor key, like it should be on the... Lesen Sie weiter...
Veröffentlicht am 14. März 2000 von "claud1019"
If you want Grisham, read Grisham!
Obviously (from some earlier reviews) not everyone appreciates a book with virtually no plot; if you need plot, try a guy named John Grisham or one of his numerous replicants. Lesen Sie weiter...
Am 5. Mai 1999 veröffentlicht
am i nuts?
I think that anyone who can take thoughts we all have (to some degree, at least) and word them so gracefully deserves the cheer the narrator directs toward perforation. Lesen Sie weiter...
Am 26. April 1999 veröffentlicht
Mania for details
To call this a novel is a misnomer. It's a catalogue of Baker's at times anal reflections on the ephemera of modern life, such as escalator etiquette and how corporate carpeting... Lesen Sie weiter...
Veröffentlicht am 15. Februar 1999 von Andrew Rasanen
Read in small doses.
This semi-novel has no plot, but it has an endless supply of footnotes which distract you to no end. It does have some funny lines but all too rare. Lesen Sie weiter...
Am 12. Januar 1999 veröffentlicht
Thank God my brother recommended this book to me!
This is quite simply one of the best books I've ever read. Baker has managed to capture the minutiae that float around in the head of anyone whose brain just will not shut up. Lesen Sie weiter...
Veröffentlicht am 7. Oktober 1998 von kathcom
Irritating
Pretentious trash. A very annoying book. I take comfort in the fact that its cultural references are so obscure and trivial that the book will be nearly meaningless in twenty... Lesen Sie weiter...
Am 6. September 1998 veröffentlicht
Totally unique and entertaining.
From the time I read the extended footnote about drinking straws while standing in the bookstore, I was hooked. I've never read anything quite like it.
Am 7. August 1998 veröffentlicht
"Perforation! Perforation! Shout it out!"
God, I love this book. In so many ways and on so many levels, Baker has perfectly encapsulated the cultural life of an entire generation. Lesen Sie weiter...
Am 24. Juli 1998 veröffentlicht
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