A myriad of unrelated and trivial questions flood through the mind of the narrator, Mike, as he feeds his six month-old baby daughter one afternoon. Baker's readership and fan base is well-established with the success of his previous book, Vox.
A myriad of unrelated and trivial questions flood through the mind of the narrator, Mike, as he feeds his six month-old baby daughter one afternoon. B...
Baker presents a subtle, funny, yet profoundly serious study of the means by which art and artists are made, in this book about John Updike, and Baker's own obsession with Updike.
Baker presents a subtle, funny, yet profoundly serious study of the means by which art and artists are made, in this book about John Updike, and Baker...
Two men - Jay and Ben - sit in a Washington hotel room. Jay has called his old friend Ben there - to tell him why and how he wants to kill the President. Jay is a bit of a loser (he's lost his girlfriend, his job, and his car), generally easy-going, but now he's on edge and he's angry - and he's acquired some radio-controlled flying saws, and is working on a boulder with a depleted uranium centre - but he also has a gun and bullets. Ben is the voice of liberal reason, with a job and a family. Jay switches on a tape machine, and the two men argue. Well, Ben tries feebly to reason or cajole,...
Two men - Jay and Ben - sit in a Washington hotel room. Jay has called his old friend Ben there - to tell him why and how he wants to kill the Preside...
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 from love and marriage, to firelighters and suicide, in the twinkling of an eye.
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...
This is the story of two voices, his and hers: two strangers who, having met on a telephone chat-line, switch to a private, one-on-one connection - and find it impossible to hang up.
This is the story of two voices, his and hers: two strangers who, having met on a telephone chat-line, switch to a private, one-on-one connection - an...
