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  A Box of Matches (Paperback) By (author) Nicholson Baker

  

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  Short Description for A Box of MatchesEmmett wants to know what life is about. Every day he gets up before dawn, makes a cup of coffee, lights a fire with one wooden match, and thinks. What Emmett thinks about is the subject of this wise and closely observed novel, which covers vast distances while moving no farther than Emmett's hearth and home.
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  • Publisher: Vintage Books
  • Published: 01 March 2004
  • Format: Paperback 192 pages
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  • Categories: Contemporary Fiction
  • ISBN 13: 9780375706035 ISBN 10: 0375706038
  • Sales rank: 611,398

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Full description for A Box of Matches

• During a month in the life of a forty-five-year-old editor of medical textbooks, Emmett--married with children, a cat, and a duck--ruminates about the meaning of life during his pre-dawn sojourns alone. By the National Book Critics Circle Award-winning author of Double Fold: Libraries and the Assault on Paper. Reprint. 35,000 first printing.