num_pages: 116
description: What are the questions that occur to Mike, our narrator (also known, variously, as Micky, Mickanore, Norker, Yamanicky, Hornefleur, Fatboy, Lowbrow and Dark Shitter), part-time technical writer and reviewer of television advertisements, as he feeds a bottle of warmed evaporated milk to his six-month-old baby daughter Bug at three-fifteen on an autumn afternoon?These are some of them:At what speed does a puff of air travel across a still room (on an autumn day, at approximately three-fifteen in the afternoon) when the windows are closed?When (and why) does the act of smiling sound like bacon frying?Is it possible to hold your breath regularly for two minutes without suffering permanent brain damage, even if only a limited kind?Under exactly what circumstances can married partners become too intimate?Room Temperature, Nicholson Baker's second novel, takes place before, during and after the bottle-feeding of Bug. It is a domestic comedy with few precedents: microscopic in scope, panoramic in detail and intensely funny.
language: English
title: Room Temperature
titlecomplete: Room Temperature
genres: 20th Century, Literature, American, Parenting, Literary Fiction, American Fiction, Novels, Essays, Fiction, Contemporary
ratings_count: 1082
publisher: Granta Books