The Mezzanine
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The Mezzanine
Nicholson Baker
Literature
James Mustich
Jul 27, 2018
The plot of Nicholson Baker’s debut novel is simple: A man, returning to his office building from a lunch hour that included milk, a cookie, a small errand, and a stroll, goes up an escalator. That’s it. Only 135 pages long, and graced with numerous lengthy and absorbingly digressive footnotes, this is a wise, patient exploration of that unseen mental space in which we pass our time—and it’s very funny to boot.
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Jane Huttner
Apr 12, 2020
I really liked it. He has such a descriptive way with words. I love how his mind kept going off on tangents from one thought to the next thinking about all the other things about a phrase he just used that many use. One he used was 'often wondered' which made him think of how many times that really was.
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Carol Ann Weaver
Jan 10, 2022
It was very Proustian in a modern sort of way. I found it much easier than Proust and could muse with him on the change from glass delivery milk to cartons!
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Bob
Jan 20, 2022
Funny, engrossing, it reads like no other book I know.
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