About this title: "The Anthologist" captures all the warmth, wit, and extraordinary prose stylethat have made Baker--a National Book Critics Circle Award-winning author--anAmerican master.
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Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Date Published: 2009-09-08
ISBN-13:9781416572442ISBN:1416572449
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Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Date Published: 2009
ISBN-13:9781416572442ISBN:1416572449
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Binding: Hardback
Publisher: SIMON & SCHUSTER LTD Country = UNITED KINGDOM
Date Published: 2009
ISBN-13:9781847376350ISBN:1847376355
Description: BRAND NEW HARDBACK. 256 pages. From the author of the critically acclaimed human smoke, a brilliantly funny and deftly constructed new novel (Hardback) read more
Binding: Hardback
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Date Published: 2009
ISBN-13:9781416572442ISBN:1416572449
Description: New. "The Anthologist" captures all the warmth, wit, and extraordinary prose stylethat have made Baker--a National Book Critics Circle Award-winning author--anAmerican master. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Simon & Schuster Ltd
Date Published: 2009
ISBN-13:9781847376350ISBN:1847376355
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"While there are countless novels about writers, there are scant few about poets. The narrator/protagonist Paul Chowder takes readers through a rambling introduction to his experience with life and poetry, while he avoids writing an introduction to a rhyming poetry anthology. In a different writer's hands, this combination could be terrible, but Baker's able to let his characters wander with a purpose, and unlike his first novel, The Mezzanine, doesn't let it these side trips take over The Anthologist. Further, the novel also manages to discuss many contemporary/20th century poetry, as well as rhyme, meter, free verse, and form without turning into a textbook."
"One of the most unique books I've ever read. I found Paul Chowder to be an astute, vulnerable, hilarious, insightful, and very sympathetic narrator, as he struggles with writing the introduction to an anthology, as well as lost love, mouse droppings, and slicing open his finger. This was the first book in ages that inspired me to get out a pen and underline, star, and otherwise make note of beautiful paragraphs, lines, or even word combinations that I knew I'd want to look back on later. It was also a nice crash course on poetry, about which I know very little, and which I don't even really like... but honestly, this book approached it in such a refreshing, vivid way, that I might be inclined to actually look into the poetry of many of those discussed."
"I loved this book. Nicholson Baker is such a good writer that no matter the story, it's sheer pleasure reading his prose.
Paul Chowder, a poet who is writing an anthology of poems that rhyme, is caantakerous and lovable. The book is mostly about the details of his daily life; the washing of the dog, the cleaning of the barn, the beads he buys to make a necklace for the woman he loves who left him. All the while you are with him in his thoughts as his mind wanders. There is something familiar because Baker captures the way we all have thoughts that light from one thing to the next to the next. But Paul Chowder is not ordinary; he is a poet and so his thoughts range from the ordinary to the profound and sometimes all in the same paragraph. Along the way you learn so much about poetry. This is a book I wanted to start all over again as soon as I finished it. And I have now looked up some of the poets he mentioned because reading this book made me want to know their writings."
"Woah Nicholson Baker has a new book out? I found this randomly in the JFK Terminal 4 bookstore - I used to be such a huge Baker fan, but he had a long gap between novels, and then that novel came out about assassinating the president, and that sort of turned me off. But upon seeing this one, I gave it a chance.
It's vintage Baker - pedantic, meandering, plotless, academic... I love that about his books, so this one roped me in a bit as well. It's got no footnotes, and - gasp! - it has a semblance of a plot. Well, sort of. Okay, not really, but.. there is an actual climax to the novel, almost, and... something happens. And there's a denouement. And almost an ending. I guess that's a major change for Baker, in a way. It was welcome, though I almost missed it all, since it all happened over the course of maybe two pages.
Still, though, there's no one like him, and he's adapting and growing enough that the vestiges of his signature style are welcome and feel like a warm blanket. I always loved his meandering, pedantic, plotless, ribald style, and it was nice to revisit it. Enough so I might go read that book about the president."
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