Vox

by Nicholson Baker

Overview

Baker has written a novel that remaps the territory of sex—solitary and telephonic, lyrical and profane, comfortable and dangerous. Written in the form of a phone conversation between two strangers, Vox is an erotic classic that places the author in the first rank of America's major writers. Reading tour.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780307807489
Publisher:	Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Publication date:	08/24/2011
Series:	Vintage Contemporaries
Sold by:	Random House
Format:	eBook
Pages:	176
File size:	2 MB

About the Author

NICHOLSON BAKER was born in 1957 and attended the Eastman School of Music and Haverford College. He has published ten novels and has written about poetry, literature, history, politics, time manipulation, youth, and sex. In 1999, he founded the American Newspaper Repository, a collection of nineteenth- and twentieth-century newspapers. He received a National Book Critics Circle Award in 2001 for his nonfiction book, Double Fold: Libraries and the Assault on Paper and the International Hermann Hesse Prize (Germany) in 2014. He lives in Maine with his wife and two children.

Date of Birth:

1954

Place of Birth:

Rochester, NY

Education:

B.A. in English, Haverford College, 1980

Editorial Reviews

This is Ravel's "Bolero" played out on the page…The conversation gets sexier and sexier and…well, I'm too rang out to go on.
—Cosmopolitan

Louise Bernikow

A remarkable tour de force...Vox is hilarious...a delightful novel.
—The Washington Post Book World

Alexander Theroux

Imagine Chagall being commissioned to do the drawings for the joy of sex, and you'll have some notion of the topsy-turvey, concupiscent free-for-all that Vox conjures up....The book exudes a giddy buoyancy that you don't often find in American fiction.
—The San Francisco Chronicle

Michael Upchurch

Explicit, often funny, and above all erotic...Baker specializes in the risky and playful.
—The Los Angeles Times

Cyra McFadden

"Un roman qui redessine le territoire du sexe, solitaire et telephonique, lyrique et profane, confortable et dangereux. Vox est un classique de l'erotisme qui place son auteur au premier rang des grands ecrivains americains.Un roman erotique brillamment drole, perversement tendre et techniquement epoustouflant.Un texte piquant, drole, intelligent et sensuel."

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