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House of Holes by Nicholson Baker
$30.00 AUD
Category: Fiction
Visit the House of Holes, where the motto is 'Pleasure First', and discover a solution to every sexual problem, insight into every sexual intrigue, or play out your greatest sexual fantasy. Men can begin with a 'good, friendly penis scrub', take the magic sperm sniff test or visit the Porndecahedron. Gr ...Show more
Human Smoke: The Beginnings of World War II, The End of Civilization by Nicholson Baker
$26.99 AUD
Category: European
At a time when the West seems ever more eager to call on military aggression as a means of securing international peace, Nicholson Baker's provocative narrative exploring the political misjudgements and personal biases that gave birth to the terrifying consequences of the Second World War could not ...Show more
The Anthologist by Nicholson Baker
$20.00 AUD
Category: Fiction
The Anthologist, is narrated by Paul Chowder, a poet of some little reknown who is sitting in his barn most of the time trying to write the introduction to a new anthology of poetry called Only Rhyme. He's having a hard time getting started because his career is falling apart, his girlfriend Roz has rec ...Show more
The Mezzanine by Nicholson Baker
$23.00 AUD
Category: Fiction
An electrifying and hilarious novel about the mundanity of office life, reissued for Granta Editions.
The Way the World Works: Essays by Nicholson Baker
$29.99 AUD
Category: Essays
"New York Times" bestselling author Nicholson Baker, "who writes like no one else in America" ("Newsweek"), has assembled his best nonfiction writing over the last fifteen years, a trove of original and provocative pieces. "The Way the World Works," Nicholson Baker's second essay collection, ranges ove ...Show more
Travelling Sprinkler by Nicholson Baker
$22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
Paul Chowder is a poet, but he's fallen out of love with writing poems. He hasn't fallen out of love with his ex-girlfriend Roz, though. In fact he misses her desperately. As he struggles to come to terms with Roz's new relationship with a doctor, Paul turns to his acoustic guitar for comfort and inspir ...Show more
U & I : A True Story by Nicholson Baker
$19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
When Nicholson Baker, one of the most linguistically talented writers in America, set out to write a book about John Updike, the result was no ordinary biography. Instead Baker's account of his relationship with his hero is a hilarious story of ambition, obsession, talent and neurosis, alternately self- ...Show more
Vox by Nicholson Baker
$19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
Vox is the story of two voices, his and hers: two strangers who, having met on a telephone chat-line, switch to a private, one-on-one connection - and find it impossible to hang up. Literate, humorous, erotic, Vox is a classic of bedtime reading.
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