The Mezzanine: A Novel
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Edition: 1st us ed., 1st pr.,
Condition remarks:
Book: Very good
Jacket: Very good
Pages: Good
Markings: No markings
A landmark of postmodern literary fiction, The Mezzanine chronicles a single lunch break in the life of a young office worker named Howie as he rides an escalator back to his floor, transforming the mundane into the extraordinary through an avalanche of digressive, footnote-laden observations. Nicholson Baker's debut novel presents the inner workings of a hyper-attentive mind fixating on the micro-details of everyday life — shoelaces, milk cartons, paper towels, and the physics of straws — with a wit and precision that is both comic and deeply philosophical. The tone is warmly cerebral and gently satirical, inviting readers to reconsider the rich, unnoticed texture of ordinary experience. Baker argues, through Howie's relentless cataloguing, that the smallest objects and habits carry entire histories of human ingenuity and personal memory. A cult classic of American literature, it remains a singular, joyful meditation on consciousness, consumerism, and the beauty hidden in the banal.
Author: Nicholson Baker
Format: Hardback
Published: 1988, Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Genre: Modern fiction
Edition: 1st us ed., 1st pr.,
Condition remarks:
Book: Very good
Jacket: Very good
Pages: Good
Markings: No markings
A landmark of postmodern literary fiction, The Mezzanine chronicles a single lunch break in the life of a young office worker named Howie as he rides an escalator back to his floor, transforming the mundane into the extraordinary through an avalanche of digressive, footnote-laden observations. Nicholson Baker's debut novel presents the inner workings of a hyper-attentive mind fixating on the micro-details of everyday life — shoelaces, milk cartons, paper towels, and the physics of straws — with a wit and precision that is both comic and deeply philosophical. The tone is warmly cerebral and gently satirical, inviting readers to reconsider the rich, unnoticed texture of ordinary experience. Baker argues, through Howie's relentless cataloguing, that the smallest objects and habits carry entire histories of human ingenuity and personal memory. A cult classic of American literature, it remains a singular, joyful meditation on consciousness, consumerism, and the beauty hidden in the banal.