| A Box of Matches Contributor(s): Baker, Nicholson (Author) |
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ISBN: 0375706038 ISBN-13: 9780375706035 Publisher: Knopf Publishing Group OUR PRICE: $18.05 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: March 2004 Annotation: 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. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Literary - Fiction | Epistolary - Fiction | Small Town & Rural |
| Dewey: FIC |
| LCCN: 2002069704 |
| Series: Vintage Contemporaries |
| Physical Information: 0.56" H x 5.22" W x 8.06" (0.45 lbs) 192 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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. |