{"product_id":"the-mezzanine-paperback","title":"The Mezzanine - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eNicholson Baker\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"A seriously funny book.\"--Salman Rushdie\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"It pulverized me.\"--Hernan Diaz\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAn elegant new edition of Nicholson Baker's stunning and highly influential first novel, a witty and boundlessly inventive homage to the profound, neglected details of everyday working life\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Mezzanine\u003c\/i\u003e is a novel told through one man's ride up an escalator in the office building where he works. In the hands of Nicholson Baker, the bestselling and award-winning author of \u003ci\u003eVox\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Anthologist\u003c\/i\u003e, this journey is transformed into a stylistically dazzling reappraisal of the objects and rituals of our lives. 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. His sharp storytelling and existential humor bring clarity to the odd angles of the ordinary.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSince its first publication in 1988, this novel has become a perennial favorite of readers and writers looking to better understand our uncanny everyday, and has become a cult classic of modern literature. In less than 150 brilliant pages, \u003ci\u003eThe Mezzanine\u003c\/i\u003e manages to wryly interrogate the logic of modernity, celebrate the strange reality of life in the 1980s, and express something of the profundity of human existence.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eFront Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eTurns an ordinary ride up an office escalator into a meditation on our relations with familiar objects--shoelaces, straws, and more. Baker's debut novel, and a favorite amongst many of us here.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eNicholson Baker\u003c\/b\u003e has written eighteen books, including \u003ci\u003eVox, The Anthologist, Human Smoke, \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eBaseless\u003c\/i\u003e--also an art book, \u003ci\u003eThe World on Sunday\u003c\/i\u003e, in collaboration with his wife Margaret Brentano. Several of his books have been \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e bestsellers, and he has won a National Book Critics Circle Award, a James Madison Freedom of Information Award, a Guggenheim fellowship, and the Herman Hesse Prize. Baker and his wife live on the Penobscot River in Maine.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 142\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.5 x 8.2 x 5.4 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e July 13, 2010\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52911523463392,"sku":"9780802144904","price":19.04,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0811\/5909\/4496\/files\/bRE8rAQfnG9780802144904.webp?v=1781272898","url":"https:\/\/improvedinc.myshopify.com\/products\/the-mezzanine-paperback","provider":"Improved Improper Input Inc.","version":"1.0","type":"link"}