- Fiction, general, New York Times reviewed
Nicholson Baker's new novel is the story of Arno Strine, a temporary typist, who has perfected the knack of stopping time in its tracks and taking women's clothes off. He is hard at work on his autobiography, The Fermata, which proves in the telling to be a very provocative and altogether morally confused piece of work.
Log it
Sign in to log this.
Character
Contemporary, contemplative, intimate and spare.
- contemporarynostalgic
- contemplativerelentless
- intimateepic
- sparerichly built
- cooloverwhelming
Who loves it, who doesn't
No profiled raters yet.
Ask the title
A yes-or-no question, answered from what people wrote here, on TMDB and on Wikipedia. Never made up.
Reviews
No reviews yet.
About the book
- Author
- Nicholson Baker
- First published
- 1994
- Pages
- 320
- Publisher
- Chatto & Windus, Vintage, CHATTO WINDUS
- Editions
- 6
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780701159993
Where to read
Libraries first: a card gets you most books for nothing. Each opens that service’s page for this title.
On Open Library, 42 want to.
Similar in taste
Closest on the same fourteen dimensions, from everything scored on Tastebuds Other media included when they land close.
Checkpoint 200478% alikeBoth contemporary, contemplative, intimate.
Yellow face 200876% alikeBoth contemporary, intimate, spare.
God bless you, Dr. Kevorkian 199973% alikeBoth contemporary, intimate.
Both intimate.
The breast 197272% alikeBoth contemporary, contemplative, intimate.
The Epicure's lament 200471% alikeBoth contemporary, contemplative, intimate.
Confessions of a Crap Artist 197571% alikeBoth contemporary, intimate, spare.
Liver 200871% alikeBoth contemporary, contemplative, spare.
Another Perspective 201374% alikeGame · Both contemporary, contemplative, intimate.
Six Degrees of Separation 199372% alikeFilm · Both contemporary, contemplative, intimate.