Bücher von Nicholson Baker

From Nicholson Baker, best-selling author of Vox and the most original writer of his generation, his most controversial novel yet.

The ostensible purpose of a library is to preserve the printed word. But for fifty years our country's libraries-including the Library of Congress-have been doing just the opposite, destroying hundreds of thousands of historic newspapers and replacing them with microfilm copies that are difficult to read, lack all the color and quality of the original paper and illustrations, and deteriorate with age. With meticulous detective work and Baker's well-known explanatory power, Double Fold reveals a secret history of microfilm lobbyists, former CIA agents, and warehouses where priceless archives are destroyed with a machine called a guillotine. Baker argues passionately for preservation, even cashing in his own retirement account to save one important archive-all twenty tons of it. Written the brilliant narrative style that Nicholson Baker fans have come to expect, Double Fold is a persuasive and often devastating book that may turn out to be The Jungle of the American library system.

The bestselling author of Vox and The Fermata devotes his hyperdriven curiosity and magnificently baroque prose to the fossils of punctuation and the lexicography of smut, delivering to readers a provocative and often hilarious celebration of the neglected aspects of our experience.

Alice in Pornoland.Was ist das Haus der Löcher für ein Ort? Nicholson Baker, Spezialist für ungewöhnliche Erotik, hat ihn entdeckt. Es ist ein Resort, küstennah, sonnenbeschienen, luxuriös, mit angeschlossenem Vergnügungspark. Ein Ort, an dem unsere geheimsten sexuellen Wünsche erfüllt werden, oder gar solche, die wir nie zu wünschen wagten.Und wie kommen wir dort hin? So ähnlich wie Alice ins Wunderland: durch den dritten Trockner von links im Waschsalon um die Ecke, durch den Trinkhalm unseres Cocktails - oder einfach, indem wir dieses Buch aufschlagen und kopfüber eintauchen.