House of Holes [Paperback]

In theNew York TimesbestsellerHouse 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).

Shandee finds a friendly arm at a granite quarry. Ned drops down a hole in a golf course. 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.House of Holes,one of the most talked-about books in recent memory, is a gleefully provocative novel sure to surprise, amuse, and arouse.Nicholson Bakeris the author of nine novels and four works of nonfiction, includingDouble Fold, which won a National Book Critics Circle award. He lives with his family in Maine. “Truly uproarious . . . Baker is one of the most consistently enticing writers of our time.”—Sam Lipsyte, front cover ofTheNew York Times Book Review“Wild and hallucinatory . . . Full of fearlessness, cheerfulness, wit, and brio.”—Meg Wolitzer,The Washington Post“House of Holesis as funny as it is filthy. . . . When he is not writing about sex (and also when he is), Baker is one of the most beautiful, original, ingenious prose stylists to have come along in decades.”—Charles McGrath,The New York Times Magazine“A sexy, disturbing, funny book: It may also challenge the usual reader of literary novels with its sheer dazzling excess of imagination.”—Kate Roiphe,Slate“Awe-inducing . . . A joyful, almost Chaucerian book . . . Had Dr. Seuss been a slightly insane pornographer, he might have written a book ló„