Baker returns to the eroticism of his earlier Vox (1995) and The Fermata (1994) but kicks it up about a dozen notches .
House of Holes, one of the most talked-about books in recent memory, is a gleefully provocative novel sure to surprise, amuse, and arouse..
So begins Nicholson Baker\'s fuse-blowing sexual escapade--a modern-day Hieronymus Boschian bacchanal set in a pleasure resort where normal rules don\'t apply.
Ned drops down a hole in a golf course.
Shandee finds a friendly arm at a granite quarry.
In the New York Times bestseller House of Holes , Nicholson Baker, one of the most beautiful, original, and ingenious prose stylists to have come along in decades ( The New York Times Magazine ), returns to the terrain that made him famous with a gleefully provocative, off-the-charts erotic novel that is unlike anything you\'ve read--a filthy tour de force ( Time ). --Kirkus Reviews. [with] wit and verbal play. . .
Baker explores a fine line between eroticism and pornography here . . .
Baker returns to the eroticism of his earlier Vox (1995) and The Fermata (1994) but kicks it up about a dozen notches
