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A Box of Matches

Nicholson Baker

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English
Vintage
01 March 2004
'Nicholson Baker is our foremost authority on life's unexamined routines, our laureate of ritual' Scotland on Sunday

A man gets up earlier and earlier each day, dresses in the dark, makes his coffee and lights the fire with a box of matches. Then he rummages through the thoughts that crowd his head and preoccupy him. Here is mid-life domesticated man, whose thoughts veer brilliantly from love and marriage, to firelighters and suicide, in the twinkling of an eye.

This is Baker at his best, humorous and observant, revealing the underlying truths about the ephemerality of life, the joy of small things, the darkness just the other side of everyday life - all human life in a box of matches.
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Imprint:   Vintage
Country of Publication:   United Kingdom
Edition:   New edition
Dimensions:   Height: 198mm,  Width: 129mm,  Spine: 13mm
Weight:   139g
ISBN:   9780099448389
ISBN 10:   0099448386
Pages:   144
Publication Date:  
Audience:   General/trade ,  ELT Advanced
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active

Reviews for A Box of Matches

Like the small, agreeable sensations it so deftly evokes, this modestly scaled story is a pleasure that can add cheer to an entire day * Spectator * This might be Baker's best yet - you're in for a treat * Evening Standard * There is a good deal more everyday wonder here than in a hundred original miscellanies * Observer * As Kipling was to the secrets of the jungle, so is Baker to modern domesticity, equally ready with fascinating observation * Daily Telegraph * Extraordinary prose * Sunday Times *


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