Understanding Nicholson Baker
By: Arthur Saltzman.
Series: Understanding contemporary American literature
Publisher: University of South Carolina Press
Published: 1999
Place of publication: Columbia
Language: eng
Number of pages: 209
Subjects: Baker, Nicholson -- Criticism and interpretation.
Description: Lauded by Vanity Fair as "the best writer of our generation," Nicholson Baker has earned a complex and controversial reputation among contemporary American authors. In addition to being celebrated as a prose miniaturist for such works as The Mezzanine and Room Temperature, Baker is known for highly erotic works such as Vox and The Fermata.

In Understanding Nicholson Baker, Arthur Saltzman engages these provocative fictions as well as Baker's nonfiction to show how his seemingly disparate works derive from and demonstrate an unremitting zeal for explicit detail, along with descriptive obsessiveness and linguistic virtuosity.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [198]-202) and index.
"Works by Nicholson Baker": p. [198]-199.