A Box of Matches

Fiction & Literature, Literary
Cover of the book A Box of Matches by Nicholson Baker, Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
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Author: Nicholson Baker ISBN: 9781400076338
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group Publication: March 9, 2004
Imprint: Vintage Language: English
Author: Nicholson Baker
ISBN: 9781400076338
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Publication: March 9, 2004
Imprint: Vintage
Language: English

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 further 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.

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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 further 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.

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