7/3/2023 0 Comments The fermata book"About this title" may belong to another edition of this title. The Fermata Nicholson Baker Random House, 1994 - Fiction - 303 pages 16 Reviews Having turned phone sex into the subject of an astonishing national bestseller in Vox, Baker now outdoes himself. What's memorable is less the sex and the sex toys (including the "Monasticon," in the shape of a monk holding a vibrating manuscript) than Arno's wistful recollections of intimacy: the noise, for instance, of his ex-girlfriend's nail clipper, "which I listened to in bed as some listen to real birdsong." Anyone who can stop time and refer in self-delight to his "chronanisms" can't be all bad! Like Baker's other books, The Fermata gains little from synopsis. Arno uses this gift not for evil or material gain (he would feel guilty about stealing), though he does undress a good number of women and momentarily place them in compromising positions-always, in his view, with respect and love. His "Fold-powers" are easier he can stop the world and use it as his own pleasure ground. His narrator, Arno Strine, is a 35-year-old office temp who is writing his autobiography. The Fermata is the most risky of Nicholson Baker's emotional histories.
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