Literary
Humor
1988
Mezzanine by Nicholson Baker
Published in Spanish as La entreplanta
From the humble milk carton to the act of tying one's shoes, Baker at once defamiliarizes the familiar world and endows it with loopy and euphoric poetry.
What it is
All in one day, one night or one summer · it changes how you see things
What happens in it
One day, one summer
How it feels
Reading sheet
How it's told
- Who tells it
- First person
- Pulls you in with
- How it's written
- Style
- Literary
- Pace
- Unhurried
Before you pick it up
Is it for you?
It's for you if…
- how it's written matters to you as much as what happens
- you like dry, sideways humour
- you like a book that makes you think
Maybe not if…
- you need things to happen fast
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