Böcker av Nicholson Baker

Baker's x-rated literary masterpiece, part of a stunning redesign of Baker's Granta backlist.

Nicholson Baker's hilarious, genre-defining debut novel, part of a stunning redesign of Baker's Granta backlist.

Two men - Jay and Ben - sit in a Washington hotel room. Well, Ben tries feebly to reason or cajole, while Jay rants and rages about everything from the horror of what happened at that southern Iraq checkpoint where US forces opened fire on a Shiite family in a Land Rover, killing most of them, and decapitating two young girls;

Baker's startlingly honest, very funny account of his obsession with John Updike, part of a stunning redesign of Baker's Granta backlist.

A warm-hearted, tender novel about marriage, fatherhood and playing the tuba, part of a stunning redesign of Baker's Granta backlist.

A man gets up earlier and earlier each day, dresses in the dark, makes his coffee and lights the fire with a box of matches.

This is the story of Arno Strine, a modest temporary typist, who has perfected the knack of stopping time in its tracks and taking women's clothes off. He is hard at work on his autobiography, The Fermata, which proves in the telling to be a very provocative, very funny and altogether morally confused piece of work.