Nicholson Baker is the author of nine novels and four works of nonfiction, including Double Fold, which won a National Book Critics Circle award. He lives with his family in Maine.
"House of Holes is as funny as it is filthy. . . . When he is not
writing about sex (and also when he is), Baker is one of the most
beautiful, original, ingenious prose stylists to have come along in
decades." --Charles McGrath, The New York Times Magazine
"A funny, frisky novel that brings sexy back in a way that Justin
Timberlake never dreamed . . . Reminds us that books can be fun and
sexy, that literature can have just as much raw energy and
liberating chaos as a good f*ck." --Mark Haskell Smith, Los Angeles
Review of Books
"A sexy, disturbing, funny book: It may also challenge the usual
reader of literary novels with its sheer dazzling excess of
imagination." --Kate Roiphe, Slate
"A world of universal arousal is common enough in pornography, but
Baker has fully realized its comic possibilities . . . [He] can
conjure fantastical sexual scenarios and unspool yards of
charmingly filthy dialogue." --Elaine Blair, The New York Review of
Books
"Amazing and indispensable." --Jeff Simon, The Buffalo News
"Awe-inducing . . . A joyful, almost Chaucerian book . . . Had Dr.
Seuss been a slightly insane pornographer, he might have written a
book like this." --Tom Bissell, GQ
"Brilliant, absurd, puerile, depraved, and completely enthralling."
--Steve Almond, The Boston Globe
"Truly uproarious . . . Baker is one of the most consistently
enticing writers of our time." --Sam Lipsyte, front cover of The
New York Times Book Review
"Wild and hallucinatory . . . Full of fearlessness, cheerfulness,
wit, and brio." --Meg Wolitzer, The Washington Post
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