A Box of Matches: A Novel

Baker, Nicholson

ISBN 10: 0375502874 / ISBN 13: 9780375502873

Published by Random House, New York, 2003

About this Item

First impression. Black cloth boards stamped in silver on the spine. Name of ownership on the front free endpaper a tightly bound copy in an unclipped dust jacket. Ex-library with minimal markings.

Seller Inventory # 106007

Bibliographic Details

• Title: A Box of Matches: A Novel
• Publisher: Random House, New York
• Publication Date: 2003
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0375502874
• ISBN 13: 9780375502873
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: First Edition.
• Condition: Very Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: very good
• Seller catalogs:
  • Fiction

About this title

Synopsis

Emmett has a wife and two children, a cat, and a duck, and he wants to know what life is about. Every day he gets up before dawn, makes a cup of coffee in the dark, lights a fire with one wooden match, and thinks.

What Emmett thinks about is the subject of this wise and closely observed novel, which covers vast distances while moving no farther than Emmett’s hearth and home. Nicholson Baker’s extraordinary ability to describe and celebrate life in all its rich ordinariness has never been so beautifully achieved.

Baker won the National Book Critics Circle Award for Double Fold: Libraries and the Assault on Paper. He now returns to fiction with this lovely book, reminiscent of the early novels—Room Temperature and The Mezzanine—that established his reputation.

About the Author

Nicholson Baker was born in 1957 and attended the Eastman School of Music and Haverford College. He has published five previous novels—The Mezzanine (1988), Room Temperature (1990), Vox (1992), The Fermata (1994), and The Everlasting Story of Nory (1998)—and three works of nonfiction, U and I (1991), The Size of Thoughts (1996), and Double Fold (2001), which won a National Book Critics Circle Award. In 1999 he founded the American Newspaper Repository, a collection of nineteenth- and twentieth-century newspapers. He lives in Maine with his wife and two children.