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Although most of the action of The Mezzanine occurs on the escalator of an office building, where its narrator is returning to work after buying shoelaces, this startlingly inventive and witty novel takes us farther than most fiction written today.
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Intimate, contemplative, character-led and warm.
- intimateepic
- contemplativerelentless
- character-ledplot-driven
- warmbleak
- unpretentiousprestige
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About the book
- Author
- Nicholson Baker
- First published
- 1988
- Pages
- 135
- Publisher
- Weidenfeld & Nicolson, Brilliance Audio, Penguin/Granta
- Editions
- 8
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9781555842581
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