{"title":"Nicholson Baker","description":"Nicholson Baker is the author of nine novels and four works of nonfiction, including Double Fold, which won a National Book Critics Circle award. He lives with his family in Maine.","products":[{"product_id":"house-of-holes-a-book-of-raunch-paperback","title":"House of Holes: A Book of Raunch - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eIn the \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e bestseller \u003ci\u003eHouse of Holes\u003c\/i\u003e, Nicholson Baker, \"one of the most beautiful, original, and ingenious prose stylists to have come along in decades\" (\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times Magazine\u003c\/i\u003e), returns to the terrain that made him famous with a gleefully provocative, off-the-charts erotic novel that is unlike anything you've read--\"a filthy tour de force\" (\u003ci\u003eTime\u003c\/i\u003e).\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eShandee finds a friendly arm at a granite quarry. 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It is an erotic classic that places Nicholson Baker firmly in the first rank of major American writers.\u003ch3\u003eFront Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eBaker has written a novel that remaps the territory of sex--solitary and telephonic, lyrical and profane, comfortable and dangerous. Written in the form of a phone conversation between two strangers, Vox is an erotic classic that places the author in the first rank of America's major writers. 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