Way the World Works
The Way the World Works, Nicholson Baker's ranges over the map of life to examine what ails us, what eases our pain, and what gives us joy. Baker-recently hailed as one of the most consistently enticing writers of our time by The New York Times-moves from political controversy to the intimacy of his own life, from forgotten heroes of pacifism to airplane wings, telephones, paper mills, David Remnick, Joseph Pulitzer, the OED, and the manufacture of the Venetian gondola. In one essay, Baker surveys our fascination with video games while attempting to beat his teenage son at Modern Warfare 2; in a celebrated essay on Wikipedia, he describes his…
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- ISBN: 978-1-4711-0268-4
- EAN: 9781471102684
- Produktnummer: 29204622
- Verlag: Simon & Schuster Uk
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2012
- Seitenangabe: 336 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 0 KB
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Nicholson Baker is the author of nine novels and four works of nonfiction, including Double Fold, which won a National Book Critics Circle Award, and House of Holes, a New York Times Notable Book of the Year. His work has appeared in The New Yorker, Harper's, and The New York Review of Books. He lives in Maine with his family.
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