Rent A Box of Matches

Synopsis

In Nicholson Baker's novel, Emmett gets up every morning for 33 mornings--one for each match with which he lights the fire in the fireplace--and drinks his coffee, eats his breakfast, and writes his daily chapter about his life. In the course of his ruminations, what comes through is his appreciation for the mundane and the forgotten, and his sadness at the ephemeral beauty of the world. A New York Times Notable Book for 2003.

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