Volume 36, Number 13 · August 17, 1989
Microscopy
By Brad Leithauser
The Mezzanine
by Nicholson Baker
Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 135 pp., $15.95
Although Nicholson Baker's The Mezzanine might reasonably be described as a novel about a man who purchases a pair of shoelaces, the book's likable narrator, whose name is Howie, would probably protest that his story is far more action-packed than that. In the penultimate chapter Howie reflects on the range of activities he has presented to the reader:
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