The Everlasting Story of Nory (Paperback)

Our supreme fabulist of the ordinary now turns his attention on a 9-year-old American girl and produces a novel as enchantingly idiosyncratic as any he has written. Nory Winslow wants to be a dentist or a designer of pop-up books. She likes telling stories and inventing dolls. She has nightmares about teeth, which may explain her career choice. She is going to school in England, where she is mocked for her accent and her friendship with an unpopular girl, and she has made it through the year without crying.
Nicholson Baker follows Nory as she interacts with her parents and peers, thinks about God and death-watch beetles, and dreams of cows with pointed teeth. In this precocious child he gives us a heroine as canny and as whimsical as Lewis Carroll's Alice and evokes childhood in all its luminous weirdness.

General

Imprint:	Vintage Books
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	March 1999
First published:	March 1999
Authors:	Nicholson Baker
Dimensions:	202 x 133 x 15mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback - Trade
Pages:	240
ISBN-13:	978-0-679-76375-8
Categories:	Books > Fiction > General & literary fiction > Modern fiction
LSN:	0-679-76375-9
Barcode:	9780679763758

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