The Mezzanine

The Mezzanine is the story of one man's lunch hour. Pondering life's littlest questions - why does one shoelace always wear out before the other? Whatever happened to the paper drinking straw? -  our narrator interrogates the inner-workings of corporate living as he traipses his way down escalators to the first floor and through the mundaneness of office life.

Mixing humour with the existentialism that surrounds all our working lives, The Mezzanine is a classic work of modern American literature.

About the author

Nicholson Baker was born in New York in 1957. He is the author of eight novels, including The Mezzanine, Vox and Room Temperature, all published by Granta Books, and five non-fiction works, including a book about John Updike, U & I, and Double Fold: Libraries and the Assault on Paper, for which he won the 2001 National Book Critics Circle Award.

Product details

• Authors: Nicholson Baker, Baker Nicholson
• Publisher: Granta Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.12.2020
• EAN: 9781783786381
• ISBN: 978-1-78378-638-1
• No. of pages: 144
• Dimensions: 130 mm x 198 mm x 12 mm
• Weight: 160 g
• Series: Granta Editions
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Nordamerika (USA und Kanada), Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945), FICTION / Literary, FICTION / City Life, Englische Bücher / Belletristik / Roman, Erzählung, Amerikanische Belletristik / Roman, Erzählung, Modern and contemporary fiction: general and literary