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A box of matches : a novel

Author: Nicholson Baker
Publisher: New York : Random House, ©2003.
Edition/Format: Book : Fiction : EnglishView all editions and formats
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A box of matches is the record of an untumultuous month in the life of Emmett, a forty-five-year-old editor of medical textbooks. Emmett has a wife and children, a cat, and a duck, and he wants to know what life is about. Every day he gets up before dawn, makes a cup of coffee in the dark, lights a fire with one wooden match, and thinks. What Emmett thinks about is the subject of this wise and closely observed novel,  Read more...
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Genre/Form: Psychological fiction., Domestic fiction.
Material Type: Fiction, Internet resource
Document Type: Book, Internet Resource
All Authors / Contributors: Nicholson Baker
ISBN: 0375502874 9780375502873
OCLC Number: 49719305
Description: 178 p. ; 21 cm.
Responsibility: Nicholson Baker.
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A box of matches is the record of an untumultuous month in the life of Emmett, a forty-five-year-old editor of medical textbooks. Emmett has a wife and children, a cat, and a duck, and he wants to know what life is about. Every day he gets up before dawn, makes a cup of coffee in the dark, lights a fire with one wooden match, and thinks. What Emmett thinks about is the subject of this wise and closely observed novel, which covers vast distances while moving no farther than Emmett's hearth and home.

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