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The Fermata (1994)

This book is based on an intriguing premise: the main character has the ability to stop time at will. This is the book that first turned me on to Baker. Ten pages into it, I was hooked. After finishing it, I wasted no time in locating his other books.

Opening Sentence:

I am going to call my autobiography The Fermata, even though "fermata" is only one of the many names I have for the Fold.

Book Jacket Copy:

Arno Strine likes to stop time and take women's clothes off. He is hard at work on his autobiography, The Fermata. It proves in the telling to be a very provocative, funny, and altogether morally confused piece of work.

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