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by Nicholson Baker (Author) "I WAS IN THE ROCKING CHAIR giving our six-month-old Bug her late afternoon bottle ..." (more)
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  • Hardcover: 116 pages
  • Publisher: Grove Pr; Reprint edition (April 1990)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0802112242
  • ISBN-13: 978-0802112248
  • Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
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3.0 out of 5 stars Uneven flow of consciousness, 15 April 2007
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Nicholson Baker has made a career of writing about small moments in intense detail. This slim book covers his musings whilst giving his 6 month old daughter a bottle of milk.

Baker has moments of real perceptiveness, which made you glad you picked up his book, but in-between those moments are chunks of writing which are as dull distractedly feeding a baby can be. In some senses that makes you appreciate the insights more when they come.

He writes like no-one else out there and he writes well. This book does not feel like fiction, it feels very much real and honest. However, in the end, this is not a great book.
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