The title refers to the Fold, 'a period of time of variable length
during which (the narrator is) alive and ambulatory and thinking
and looking, while the rest of the world is stopped, or paused'.
Think about it: everyone is frozen in time while he, the narrator,
can do whatever he pleases. Well what for the most part pleases
Arno Strine, who can induce this state at will, is not to cheat or
steal, but have his innocent sexual way with women. The result is a
very funny book, a fantasy about an endearing sociopath. Nicholson
Baker, a young American writer, found fame with his one-note book
about telephone sex, Vox; this, though, is despite its one-idea
premise, a more remarkable achievement, full of startling examples
of residual wisdom. (Kirkus UK)
Nicholson Baker's new novel is the story of Arno Strine, a modest temporary typist, who has perfected the knack of stopping time in its tracks and taking women's clothes off. He is hard at work on his autobiography, THE FERMATA, which proves in the telling to be a very provocative, very funny and altogether morally confused piece of work. Hilarious and totally original, Nicholson Baker's new novel is a triumphant comedy about sexual fantasy and fantastic sexuality.
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