The Everlasting Story of Nory Paperback - 1999
by Nicholson Baker
The supreme fabulist of the everyday follows the exciting dreams of a precocious heroine who wants to become a dentist, has nightmares about teeth, and thinks about God. Baker evokes childhood in all its luminous weirdness.
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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.
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- Title The Everlasting Story of Nory
- Author Nicholson Baker
- Binding Paperback
- Edition [ Edition: First
- Pages 240
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Vintage, New York, New York, U.S.A.
- Date 1999-03-30
- ISBN 9780679763758 / 0679763759
- Weight 0.63 lbs (0.29 kg)
- Dimensions 8.18 x 5.16 x 0.69 in (20.78 x 13.11 x 1.75 cm)
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- Cultural Region: British
- Library of Congress subjects Children, Americans - England
- Dewey Decimal Code FIC
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- New York Times, 04/04/1999, Page 24
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