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The Everlasting Story of Nory
A Literary Fiction Novel by Nicholson Baker
Subgenres:
- Coming-of-Age,
- Childhood,
- School Stories
This book is for you if you're into...
- Narratives driven by a wildly imaginative child's inner world
- Offbeat school stories set in England with outsider perspectives
- Quirky obsessions like pop-up books, beetles, and pointy-toothed cows
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.
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