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  • The Fermata

    by Nicholson Baker ...
    Series series Vintage Contemporaries
    Having turned phone sex into the subject of an astonishing national bestseller in Vox, Baker now outdoes himself with an outrageously arousing, acrobatically stylish "X-rated sci-fi fantasy that leaves Vox seeming more like mere fiber-optic foreplay" (Seattle Times). "Sparkling."--San Francisco Chronicle. ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

  • Room Temperature

    by Nicholson Baker ...
    From a New York Times–bestselling and National Book Critics Award–winning author comes a "small masterpiece" of fatherhood, childhood, and bottle-feeding ( Publishers Weekly).In a novel Entertainment Weekly called "intensely funny and moving," Nicholson Baker takes the reader on an intellectual odyssey over the course of the twenty minutes it takes a new father to give his baby daughter her bottle ... Read more

    $14.39 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Mezzanine

    by Nicholson Baker ...
    “A seriously funny book.”—Salman Rushdie“It pulverized me.”—Hernan DiazAn elegant, refreshed edition of Nicholson Baker’s stunning and highly influential first novel, a witty and boundlessly inventive homage to the profound, neglected details of everyday working lifeThe Mezzanine is a novel told through one man’s ride up an escalator in the office building where he works. In the hands of Nicholson ... Read more

    $18.39 CAD

  • Double Fold

    Libraries and the Assault on Paper

    by Nicholson Baker ...
    The ostensible purpose of a library is to preserve the printed word. But for fifty years our country’s libraries–including the Library of Congress–have been doing just the opposite, destroying hundreds of thousands of historic newspapers and replacing them with microfilm copies that are difficult to read, lack all the color and quality of the original paper and illustrations, and deteriorate with ... Read more

    Was $13.99 CAD Now $8.99 CAD

  • Vox

    by Nicholson Baker ...
    Series series Vintage Contemporaries
    NATIONAL BESTSELLERVox is a novel that remaps the territory of sex—sex solitary and telephonic, lyrical and profane, comfortable and dangerous. It is an erotic classic that places Nicholson Baker firmly in the first rank of major American writers. ... Read more

    $13.99 CAD

  • Human Smoke

    The Beginnings of World War II, the End of Civilization

    by Nicholson Baker ...
    Bestselling author Nicholson Baker, recognized as one of the most dexterous and talented writers in America today, has created a compelling work of nonfiction bound to provoke discussion and controversy -- a wide-ranging, astonishingly fresh perspective on the political and social landscape that gave rise to World War II.Human Smoke delivers a closely textured, deeply moving indictment of the ... Read more

    $21.99 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • House of Holes

    by Nicholson Baker ...
    In the New York Times bestseller House of Holes, Nicholson Baker, “one of the most beautiful, original, and ingenious prose stylists to have come along in decades” (The New York Times Magazine), returns to the terrain that made him famous with a gleefully provocative, off-the-charts erotic novel that is unlike anything you’ve read—“a filthy tour de force” (Time).Shandee finds a friendly arm at a ... Read more

    $13.99 CAD

  • Finding a Likeness

    How I Got Somewhat Better at Art

    by Nicholson Baker ...
    **Named a Best Book of 2024 by Slate and a Most Anticipated Book of 2024 by Literary HubFrom the acclaimed and bestselling writer Nicholson Baker, a deeply personal account of his journey learning how to paint for the first time, and a meditation on the power of art in times of crisis**Nicholson Baker wanted to learn how to paint.In 2019, after years of researching and writing about secret and ... Read more

    $16.99 CAD

  • The Everlasting Story of Nory

    by Nicholson Baker ...
    Our supreme fabulist of the ordinary now turns his attention on a 9-year-old American girl and produces a novel as enchantingly idiosyncratic as any he has written. Nory Winslow wants to be a dentist or a designer of pop-up books. She likes telling stories and inventing dolls. She has nightmares about teeth, which may explain her career choice. She is going to school in England, where she is ... Read more

    Was $13.99 CAD Now $8.99 CAD

  • Checkpoint

    by Nicholson Baker ...
    From Nicholson Baker, best-selling author of Vox and the most original writer of his generation, his most controversial novel yet. ... Read more

    Was $13.99 CAD Now $9.99 CAD

  • The Paul Chowder Chronicles

    The Anthologist and Traveling Sprinkler, Two Novels

    by Nicholson Baker ...
    TOGETHER FOR THE FIRST TIME, BOTH OF NICHOLSON BAKER’S BRILLIANT NOVELS FEATURING BELOVED HERO AND POET PAUL CHOWDERA New York Times notable book and a national bestseller, Nicholson Baker’s The Anthologist introduces his quirkiest and most unforgettable protagonist yet, the “erudite, unpretentious, and often hilarious” (The New Yorker) Paul Chowder.Chowder really needs to write an introduction to ... Read more

    Was $14.99 CAD Now $10.99 CAD

  • Substitute

    Going to School with a Thousand Kids

    by Nicholson Baker ...
    **A New York Times Bestseller**“May be the most revealing depiction of the American contemporary classroom that we have to date." —Garret Keizer, The New York Times Book ReviewBestselling author Nicholson Baker, in pursuit of the realities of American public education, signed up as a substitute teacher in a Maine public school district.In 2014, after a brief orientation course and a few ... Read more

    Was $14.99 CAD Now $6.99 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook