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Room Temperature

Paperback • 2011 • English • 2. edition

Room Temperature

By Nicholson Baker

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About the book

"On an autumn day, at around three-fifteen in the afternoon, Mike sits down in the rocking chair to feed his infant daughter, Bug. The novel that unfolds over the next twenty minutes of Mike's life is a warmly comic masterpiece of observation, reflection and digression. Baker brilliantly recreates Mike's roving mind, with its tangential thoughts about peanut butter and its big questions about fatherhood, marriage, and love. The result is surprisingly thrilling to read: funny, linguistically exub...Show more

Myths and Legends / Mythic fiction
Narrative theme: Interior life
Narrative theme: Identity / belonging

Book details

ISBN

9781847083494

Publisher

Granta Books

Published year

2011

Language

English

Edition

2

Original title

Room Temperature

Format

Paperback

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