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The mezzanine:

a novel
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Vintage Books, 1990 - Fiction - 135 pages
Turns 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.

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The writer is hilarious. - Goodreads
The Mezzanine is a writing exercise all grown up. - Goodreads
Spoiler alert: this is the plot of the story. - Goodreads
I'd like to see Baker try a little plot next time. - Goodreads
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All 144 pages of this book occur during the narrator's escalator ride back up to work after lunch.

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Getting Small Baker, Nicholson. (1988). The Mezzanine. New York: Grove Press. This strange little book (107 pages) is the stream of consciousness of a generic office worker in a generic company in a ... Read full review

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About the author (1990)

Nicholson Baker has published five novels–The Mezzanine, Room Temperature, Vox, The Fermata, and The Everlasting Story of Nory–and two works of nonfiction, U and I and The Size of Thoughts. He lives with his wife and two children in Maine.

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