The Mezzanine

By Nicholson Baker
(Vintage, Paperback, 9780679725763, 144pp.)

Publication Date: January 16, 1990

Other Editions of This Title: Paperback

Categories: Literary

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Turns an ordinary ride up an office escalator into a meditation on our relations with familiar objects--shoelaces, straws, and more. Baker's debut novel, and a favorite amongst many of us here.




About the Author

Nicholson Baker has published five novels–The Mezzanine, Room Temperature, Vox, The Fermata, and The Everlasting Story of Nory–and two works of nonfiction, U and I and The Size of Thoughts. He lives with his wife and two children in Maine.

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