A box of matches
Subtitle: a novel
By: Nicholson Baker
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Random House
Published: 2003
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 178
Subjects: Middle aged men; Fiction
Description: "Emmett has a wife and two 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. Nicholson Baker's extraordinary ability to describe and celebrate life in all its rich ordinariness has never been so beautifully achieved."--BOOK JACKET.