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Book Description
Having turned phone sex into the subject of an astonishing national bestseller in Vox, Baker now outdoes himself with an outrageously arousing, acrobatically stylish "X-rated sci-fi fantasy that leaves Vox seeming more like mere fiber-optic foreplay" (Seattle Times). "Sparkling."--San Francisco ChroContinue
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lrb published on Fri, 3 Sep 2010
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Stop the World, I Want to Get Off
In his new novel, Nicholson Baker turns his full attention to the lonely art, the art of masturbation. The narrator, Arno Strine, possesses a strange gift: he can stop time, halting the world around him. “I first stopped time because I liked my fourt ... (read full critics)
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- English Books
- Audio Cassette
- ISBN-10: 185686247X
- ISBN-13: 9781856862479
- Publisher: Random House Audiobooks
- Pub date: Jan 01, 1995
- Also available as: Paperback, Hardcover and Others
- In other languages: other languages
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| ISBN | Edition | List | Sale | Seller |
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| 9781856862479 | Audio Cassette | $14.78 | -- | The Book Depository |
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Michael West 
Larceny
The hero of The Fermata has an intermittent gift for stopping time, which he exploits entirely for purposes of sexual satisfaction, but Nicholson Baker’s trademark as a novelist has always been a fetishising descriptiveness that retards the speed of ... (read full critics)