The Everlasting Story of Nory
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The Everlasting Story of Nory by Nicholson Baker
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 is the author of nine novels and four nonfiction works, including the National Book Critics Circle Award-winning Double Fold and the New York Times Notable Book of the Year House of Holes. The New Yorker, Harper's, and The New York Review of Books have all published his writing. He and his family reside in Maine.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780679763758 |
| ISBN 10 | 0679763759 |
| Title | The Everlasting Story of Nory |
| Author | Nicholson Baker |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Random House USA Inc |
| Year published | 1999-03-30 |
| Number of pages | 240 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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