- Paperback: 240 pages
- Publisher: Vintage Books (April 1999)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0679763759
- ISBN-13: 978-0679763758
- Product Dimensions: 13.3 x 1.3 x 20.3 cm
- Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 3,182,444 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Our supreme fabulist of the ordinary now turns his attention on a 9-year-old American girl and produces a novel as enchantingly idiosyncratic as any he has written. Nory Winslow wants to be a dentist or a designer of pop-up books. She likes telling stories and inventing dolls. She has nightmares about teeth, which may explain her career choice. She is going to school in England, where she is mocked for her accent and her friendship with an unpopular girl, and she has made it through the year without crying.
Nicholson Baker follows Nory as she interacts with her parents and peers, thinks about God and death-watch beetles, and dreams of cows with pointed teeth. In this precocious child he gives us a heroine as canny and as whimsical as Lewis Carroll's Alice and evokes childhood in all its luminous weirdness.
Nicholson Baker follows Nory as she interacts with her parents and peers, thinks about God and death-watch beetles, and dreams of cows with pointed teeth. In this precocious child he gives us a heroine as canny and as whimsical as Lewis Carroll's Alice and evokes childhood in all its luminous weirdness.
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
'The Everlasting Story of Nory' is a masterpiece, or I'm DBC Pierre's uncle. The critics who dismissed it as whimsical had forgotten what it is actually like to be nine years old. Only an entirely serious adult could write such a faithful account of a child's mind. The respect for psychological realism and contemporary experience is extraordinary - see, for example, Nory's thoughts on her local cathedral's corporate-sponsored stained glass. Littleguy, her baby brother, is a comic character who deserves his own spin-off series. Best read very slowly - not missing the misspellings - and more than once.
Format:Hardcover
This novel is told from the point of view of a nine-year old American girl spending her first term in an English school. It's a sweet concept and the author has a good ear for how young girls talk and write - complete with mis-heard words and spellings.
Sweet it is, but it lacks a coherent story arc, apart from Nory's growing friendship with bullied Pamela. It would have been nice to set it against the run up to an event such as a school play to give some pace. Mostly it's just a day by day account together with Nory's rather weird stories she makes up in her mind, and a little repetitive.
Sweet it is, but it lacks a coherent story arc, apart from Nory's growing friendship with bullied Pamela. It would have been nice to set it against the run up to an event such as a school play to give some pace. Mostly it's just a day by day account together with Nory's rather weird stories she makes up in her mind, and a little repetitive.
0 of 2 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
I have read other books by this author which were both novel and interesting, but this was extremely tedious - it would be better marketed for children...there is no story, just a meandering journal written from the viewpoint of a young schoolgirl. It certainly felt everlasting....
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