Room Temperature - Softcover
In his second novel, Baker turns a young father's feeding-time reverie into a catalog of the minutiae of domestic love.
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Nicholson Baker writes in 360-degree Sensurround--his descriptions of the seemingly banal awakening the most jaded of senses into recognition, admiration, and amusement. In Room Temperature, his self-deprecating, endlessly curious narrator is at home giving his baby girl a bottle and allowing his mind to wander. Uppermost in his thoughts are his wife and daughter, but there is also that obsession with commas and some concern with tiny taboos like nose-picking and stealing change from his parents. Truth-telling is the operative mode; at one point he tries to get his wife to explain a doodle by quoting a review of early Yeats: "Always true is always new." Room Temperature is a rare novel of domestic pleasure and stability, with a twist. "Was there ever a limit between us? Would disgust ever outweigh love?" Baker's alter ego asks, and seems determined to find out.
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d novel, Baker turns a young father's feeding-time reverie into a catalog of the minutiae of domestic love.
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- PublisherVintage
- Publication date1991
- ISBN 10 0679734406
- ISBN 13 9780679734406
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages128
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