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A Box of Matches

2004-03-09 Fiction
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Release : 2004-03-09
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Book Synopsis A Box of Matches by : Nicholson Baker

Download or read book A Box of Matches written by Nicholson Baker. This book was released on 2004-03-09. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 further 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.

Matches

2019-04-10 Literary Collections
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Release : 2019-04-10
Genre : Literary Collections
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Book Rating : 210/5 ( reviews)

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Book Synopsis Matches by : S. D. Chrostowska

Download or read book Matches written by S. D. Chrostowska. This book was released on 2019-04-10. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It takes any number of forms. Epigrams. Aphorisms. Fragments. Sayings. Dicta. Sententiae. Facetiae. Pearls of wisdom. Fractions of truth. Maxims. Definitions. Jottings. Miscellaneous musings. Meditations. Ricordi. Pensées. Ephemera. Miniatures. Sketches. Vignettes. Denkbilder. Capriccios. Tiny 'fires without flames' ... In returning to these genres, Matches goes back to the drawing board of modern critique. It sets out to rekindle short-form literary-philosophical reflection, with roots in the Antiquity of Heraclitus and Hippocrates, apogee in the French moralistes (La Rochefoucauld, Pascal, Chamfort ...), and late splendour in German letters (Nietzsche, Kraus, Jünger ...). Moving from art and aesthetics to philosophies past and present, through natural and technological landscapes, beneath the constellations of politics, history and ethics, along the byways of contemporary literary culture--the slow reader with a little spare time will not fail to be struck. Here are pages to peruse and mistrust, texts to think with, a book to put down and ponder, to ponder and put down. A tome to keep handy, handle often, and strike repeatedly against the rough patches of the mind.

A Box of Matches

2004-03-09 Fiction
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Release : 2004-03-09
Genre : Fiction
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Book Rating : 038/5 ( reviews)

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Book Synopsis A Box of Matches by : Nicholson Baker

Download or read book A Box of Matches written by Nicholson Baker. This book was released on 2004-03-09. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 further 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.

A Box of Matches

2003 Middle-aged men
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Release : 2003
Genre : Middle-aged men
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Book Rating : 026/5 ( reviews)

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Book Synopsis A Box of Matches by : Nicholson Baker

Download or read book A Box of Matches written by Nicholson Baker. This book was released on 2003. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Here is Nicholson Baker at his obsessive- compulsive best, with humour and observation to die for, but with underlying truths and sadness about the ephemerality of life, the joy of small things, the darkness which is just the other side of everyday life -all human life in a box of matches. This book gets at the real meaning of 'the examined life', and it's unmistakably serious, but also side-splittingly funny. It is 4.32 am...' most chapters start similarly... 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, also in the dark, feeling his way around, through his silent house, where wife and children sleep, and then rummages through the thoughts which crowd his head and preoccupy him. Meanwhile outside, there's snow on the ground, Greta the duck is asleep in her dog kennel with a rug thrown over it, but that doesn't stop her bowl of water freezing each night. This is mid-life man, domesticated but still an alien creature, whose thoughts veer brilliantly from love and marriage, to firelighters and suicide, from peeing in the dark to ant-farms in the twinkling of an eye. This is virtuoso writing, idiosyncratic, brilliant, funny and touching. Nicholson Baker back on MEZZANINE form for a new generation of readers.

A Box of Matches

1904 Bookbinding
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Release : 1904
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Book Synopsis A Box of Matches by : Joseph Hamblen Sears

Download or read book A Box of Matches written by Joseph Hamblen Sears. This book was released on 1904. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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