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Nicholson Baker Fan PageRoom Temperature (1990)
Opening Sentence:I was in the rocking chair giving our six-month-old Bug her late afternoon bottle. Book Jacket Copy:Nicholson Baker's first novel, The Mezzanine, turned a lunch hour into a postmodern Odyssey. In Room Temperature, Baker takes the reader even greater distances in the course of twenty minutes, although his narrator is obliged to be stationary, as he is giving his baby daughter her bottle. His reflections provide startling and deliciously apt takes on such things as peanut butter, the air nozzles in passenger jets, and the microscopic interactions of love. Links:
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the same vein as The Mezzanine - but not quite as captivating (at least to me).