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Vox
Vox
Author: Nicholson Baker
Baker has written a novel that remaps the territory of sex--solitary and telephonic, lyrical and profane, comfortable and dangerous. Written in the form of a phone conversation between two strangers, Vox is an erotic classic that places the author in the first rank of America's major writers. Reading tour.
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ISBN-13: 9780679742111
ISBN-10: 0679742115
Publication Date: 1/26/1993
Pages: 176
Rating:
  • Currently 3.1/5 Stars.
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3.1 stars, based on 36 ratings
Publisher: Vintage
Book Type: Paperback
Other Versions: Hardcover
Members Wishing: 1
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ConeyIslandHigh avatar reviewed Vox on + 25 more book reviews
Helpful Score: 3
Nicholson Baker is a great storyteller. This one is entirely dialogue--the conversation between a man and a woman on an adult party line!
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Helpful Score: 1
Highly unusual telephone conversation between two sexually charged people, this novel is like nothing you've ever read before. Captivating, insightful.
MyLikeIt avatar reviewed Vox on + 450 more book reviews
Helpful Score: 1
This book has a minor place in history, as it was referenced in the explicit phone calls between Pres. Clinton and Monica Lewinsky. Putting that aside, it's an erotic classic that is so well-written it qualifies as literature. The vivid characterizations and witty dialogue stand up to numerous "re-reads." Recommended!
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Helpful Score: 1
Somewhere between Erotica and Fiction.
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I purchased this book because it had been recommended to me but I found it very hard to get in to. Was not able to finish this book.
racprint avatar reviewed Vox on + 24 more book reviews
Hot in a way that is completely unpredictable. If I had a phone conversation like that, I'm pretty sure I'd want to spend the rest of my life with that person. Great book.
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The master of literary nazel gazing here is a relatively short novel about, well, a phone sex conversation basically. Within this structure of two people who will never meet who just want to get off Baker does a lot. It is surprisingly readable and sort of erotic in a strange way.


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