He has received a National Book Critics Circle award, a James Madison Freedom of Information Award, the Herman Hesse Prize, and the Katherine Anne Porter Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. It also analyzes reviews to verify trustworthiness. Just a moment while we sign you in to your Goodreads account. On a sidenote - I am tired of critics and readers thinking he is cheapening his prose by writing on sexual topics. Room Temperature is Nicholson Baker's second book, and continues the genre established in his first novel The Mezzanine, though this time the action spans a few minutes at the narrator's home (in Quincy, Massachusetts). I would love to live in Nicholson Baker’s brain and see the world as he does: infinite interesting details, each enough to launch a reverie. The twenty minute period is, enchantingly, the time it takes for this daddy to feed his daughter Bug a bottle. A quiet meditation on the life of a brand new father, and how the infant a couple brings into the world somehow encapsulates every memory, every thought, every ounce of love of the husband for the wife. A quiet meditation on the life of a brand new father, and how the infant a couple brings into the world somehow encapsulates every memory, every thought, every ounce of love of the husband for the wife. Then you can start reading Kindle books on your smartphone, tablet, or computer - no Kindle device required. Download one of the Free Kindle apps to start reading Kindle books on your smartphone, tablet, and computer. After viewing product detail pages, look here to find an easy way to navigate back to pages that interest you. Something went wrong. Try again. As anyone who has sat rocking a child and watching her eat can tell you, you the world can trace through your mind. It gives me hope for our civilization; it really does. The author of the quirky masterpiece The Mezzanine turns a young father's feeding-time reverie into a dazzling catalog of the minutiae of domestic love. I do like this author's style, but despite finishing the book I felt it might have been handled differently, the subject matter. © 1996-2020, Amazon.com, Inc. or its affiliates. Every other page or so has a sentence or section of phrasing that makes the density of the prose entirely worthwhile. Room Temperature The Mezzanine (1988) is the first novel by American writer Nicholson Baker. In the book at one point, there is a sustained excursus of the comma with so much acute attention to the small detail that you can't help but be jealous, especially if you're a writer. They do logically follow one another, but each is self-contained, self-standing – the reader can imagine finding one in the pages of the New Yorker – yet part of a larger, lengthening whole. There's a problem loading this menu right now. Instead, our system considers things like how recent a review is and if the reviewer bought the item on Amazon. Enter your mobile number or email address below and we'll send you a link to download the free Kindle App. Reviewed in the United States on August 16, 2014. Many people have lauded this book for it's rather deep study of the mental meanderings of a father feeding his infant daughter. Refresh and try again. Concept. No Kindle device required. Ships from and sold by Book Depository CA. We don’t share your credit card details with third-party sellers, and we don’t sell your information to others. Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 10 years ago. And I like how not having a main plot in the novels allows the characters' imagination to run wild. . Many people have lauded this book for it's rather deep study of the mental meanderings of a father feeding his infant daughter. Room Temperature is certainly about a father and his child, but there is so much more. If plot is your thing, baker's not for you, but if you're more wooed by rich description and inventive, highly textured imagery that makes something sublime of the mundane, then you would do yourself a favor by reading this book. One problem may be personal to how I read this book--with a break. Nicholson Baker is the author of Vox, The Mezzanine, The Fermata, U & I and Thoughts. That first book seemed to avoid crossing over into pretentiousness by giving us a self-deprecating narrator and by simply pouring on the wit and intelligent observations and forcing you to laugh. As anyone who has sat rocking a child and watching her eat can tell you, you the world can trace through your mind. Reviewed in the United States on April 11, 2003. Fiction; Nicholson Baker’s first novel, The Mezzanine (1988), was about the 60 minutes it took an ordinary … Baker’s books are unique and freeing because the man writes about whatever he pleases and has a sincere be, The fact is a large cadre of klutzes (call them Baker-deniers) consider our man Nicholson to be a lightweight author. And, while I found many of the passages very interesting, funny, and clever, and also found much of this pedantic and a sort of pretentious super-intellectual discourse. To get the free app, enter your mobile phone number. A delightful book, homey and comfortable as a slipper.

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