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2011 Nominated

The Anthologist

Nicholson Baker

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ABOUT
THE BOOK

Paul Chowder is trying to write the introduction to a new anthology of rhyming verse, but he’s having a hard time getting started. The result of his fitful struggles is The Anthologist, Nicholson Baker’s brilliantly funny and exquisite love story about poetry.

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Baker

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NOMINATING LIBRARY COMMENTS

A wonderful story, complete with cogent lyrical insight, of a poet, with a severe case of writers block, compiling an anthology, and a personal life which is in shambles.

Compelling story of the way in which outcastes are compelled to adjust to the world and the pain that engenders.

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

Country
United States
Original Language
English
Author
Nicholson Baker
Publisher
Simon & Schuster

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