A Box of Matches

Nicholson Baker has published six novels - A Box of Matches, The Mezzanine, Room Temperature, Vox, The Fermata, and The Everlasting Story of Nory - and three works of non-fiction, U and I, The Size of Thoughts, and Double Fold. He lives in Maine with his wife and two children.

出版者:Vintage

作者:Nicholson Baker

页数:192 pages

出版时间:01/01/2004

价格:0

isbn号码:9780375502873

图书标签:English英文小說

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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可以把每天早起写成两百页的小说真是和普鲁斯特有一拼

可以把每天早起写成两百页的小说真是和普鲁斯特有一拼

适合冬天坐在壁炉前，翻几页书，盯着炉火发呆