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Room Temperature

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  • Product Details

    Author:
    Nicholson Baker
    Format:
    Paperback
    Pages:
    128
    Publisher:
    Grove Atlantic (October 12, 2010)
    Language:
    English
    ISBN-13:
    9780802144911
    ISBN-10:
    0802144918
    Weight:
    4.16oz
    Dimensions:
    5.5" x 8.25"
    Case Pack:
    56
    File:
    PGW-LEGATO-Metadata_Only_Publishers_Group_West_Customer_Group_Metadata_20250917130144-20250917.xml
    Folder:
    PGW
    List Price:
    $17.00
    As low as:
    $14.62
    Publisher Identifier:
    P-PER
    Discount Code:
    C
    Audience:
    General/trade
    Pub Discount:
    60
    Imprint:
    Grove Press
  • Overview

    Nicholson Baker’s novel The Mezzanine turned a lunch hour into a postmodern version of The Odyssey. In Room Temperature, originally published by Grove Press in 1984, Baker takes the reader an even greater distance in the course of twenty minutes, although his narrator is obliged to be stationary, as he is giving his baby daughter her bottle. Though all in the room is still, the narrator’s mind is not, and in inspired moments of mental flight, Mike’s thoughts on his newfound parenthood lead him back to his own childhood and to reflections on the objects of his youth. From glass peanut butter jars to French horns, from typography to courtship, Baker mixes physics and the physical in a style that has earned him accolades throughout his career.