The Fermata
Writer Nicholson Baker expresses his surprise at the shock with which critics have greeted this novel, in which a young man discovers that he can stop time. Sexuality, regression ---mobius-strip--- personality structures and infantile fantasy all play a part in the discussion.
Nicholson Baker
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