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Author: Nicholson Baker
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ISBN: B0064CL27I

The Way the World Works: Essays

Nicholson Baker, who "writes like no one else in America" (Newsweek), here assembles his best short pieces from the last fifteen years. Get The Way the World Works literature books for free.
The Way the World Works, Baker's second nonfiction collection, ranges over the map of life to examine what troubles us, what eases our pain, and what brings us joy. Baker moves from political controversy to the intimacy of his own life, from forgotten heroes of pacifism to airplane wings, telephones, paper mills, David Remnick, Joseph Pulitzer, the OED, and the manufacture of the Venetian gondola. He writes about kite string and about the moment he met his wife, and he surveys our fascination with video games while attempting to beat his teenage son at Modern Warfare 2. In a Check The Way the World Works our best literature books for 2013. All books are available in pdf format and downloadable from rapidshare, 4shared, and mediafire.

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