The Paul Chowder Chronicles by Nicholson Baker

The Paul Chowder Chronicles by Nicholson Baker

TOGETHER FOR THE FIRST TIME, BOTH OF NICHOLSON BAKER'S BRILIANT NOVELS FEATURING BELOVED HERO AND POET PAUL CHOWDER

A New York Times notable book and a national bestseller, Nicholson Baker's The Anthologist introduces his quirkiest and most unforgettable protagonist yet, the erudite, unpretentious, and often hilarious (The New Yorker) Paul Chowder.

Chowder really needs to write an introduction to his new anthology of verse, Only Rhyme--it's the first work his editor has sent him in months--but he's having a hard time getting started. Not only is his career floundering, but his girlfriend, Roz, just moved out. Perhaps unsurprisingly, Chowder can't keep his mind from drifting to the sufferings of the great poets, from Tennyson and Yeats to Roethke, Merwin, to every poet who's been published in The New Yorker. As he ponders the strange power and musicality of language, and adjusts to his newly single life, Chowder's introduction slowly but surely begins to take shape.

A wholly entertaining and beguiling love story, and the first novel in the chronicles of Paul Chowder--which is followed by Traveling Sprinkler in this same volume--The Anthologist is a loving and superbly witty homage to poetryand to life (The Boston Globe).

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	9780399172595
ISBN 10	0399172599
Title	The Paul Chowder Chronicles
Author	Nicholson Baker
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Penguin Putnam Inc
Year published	2014-10-09
Number of pages	496
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