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The Mezzanine is the story of one man's lunch hour. It addresses the big questions of corporate life like: Why does one shoelace always wear out before the other? Whose genius lies behind the folding spout on the milk carton? Whatever happened to the paper drinking-straw? Nicholson Baker's hilarious debut novel documents the thoughts of an office worker as he day-dreams on the escalator on his way to buy shoe-laces. Sparklingly original intelligent and digressive it paved the way for authors such as David Foster Wallace and Joshua Ferris and introduced one of the most controversial and acclaimed authors in America today.Read More

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  • Foyles

    On an autumn day, at around three-fifteen in the afternoon, Mike sits down in the rocking chair to feed his infant daughter, Bug. The novel that unfolds over the next twenty minutes of Mike's life is a warmly comic masterpiece of observation, reflection and digression. Baker brilliantly recreates Mike's roving mind, with its tangential thoughts about peanut butter and its big questions about fatherhood, marriage, and love. The result is surprisingly thrilling to read: funny, linguistically exuberant, tender and alive to the small mysteries and pleasures of everyday life.

  • Blackwell

    Nicholson Baker's hilarious, genre-defining debut novel, part of a stunning redesign of Baker's Granta backlist. The Mezzanine is the story of one man's lunch hour. It addresses the big questions of corporate life, like: Why does one shoelace...

  • 1847083498
  • 9781847083494
  • Nicholson Baker
  • 7 July 2011
  • Granta Books
  • Paperback (Book)
  • 128
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