{"product_id":"mezzanine-9780802168153","title":"Mezzanine","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"A seriously funny book.\"--Salman Rushdie\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"It pulverized me.\"--Hernan Diaz\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAn elegant new edition of Nicholson Baker's stunning and highly influential first novel, a witty and boundlessly inventive homage to the profound, neglected details of everyday working life\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Mezzanine\u003c\/i\u003e is a novel told through one man's ride up an escalator in the office building where he works. In the hands of Nicholson Baker, the bestselling and award-winning author of \u003ci\u003eVox\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Anthologist\u003c\/i\u003e, this journey is transformed into a stylistically dazzling reappraisal of the objects and rituals of our lives. From the humble milk carton to the act of tying one's shoes, Baker at once defamiliarizes the familiar world and endows it with loopy and euphoric poetry. His sharp storytelling and existential humor bring clarity to the odd angles of the ordinary.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSince its first publication in 1988, this novel has become a perennial favorite of readers and writers looking to better understand our uncanny everyday, and has become a cult classic of modern literature. In less than 150 brilliant pages, \u003ci\u003eThe Mezzanine\u003c\/i\u003e manages to wryly interrogate the logic of modernity, celebrate the strange reality of life in the 1980s, and express something of the profundity of human existence.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Grove Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 08\/18\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780802168153\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 224\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.45lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.20h x 5.40w x 0.60d","brand":"Nicholson Baker","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52733109665973,"sku":"9780802168153","price":14.45,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/files\/img_77d123e9-7ce5-4002-96a0-0a23d536dc16.jpg?v=1782269458","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/mezzanine-9780802168153","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}