Name: Traveling Sprinkler
ISBN: 9780399160967

Nicholson Baker

An accomplished poet tries his hand at songwriting, Quaker meetings and tobacco experiments while he copes, badly, with his ex-girlfriend's new relationship with a local NPR radio host in this new novel from the best-selling author of The Anthologist.

A Novel

Traveling Sprinkler

Daryl Houston

I liked this one a lot, and more so as I got further in. The protagonist is likable, and the prose is nice. I learned a lot from the book, from different things about classical music to what the really neat traveling sprinkler is. It's an effortless read with plenty to delight. The jacket cover calls it enchanting, and I guess that's about right. I probably should have read The Anthologist first, since Baker first introduces our protagonist in that book. I think I probably picked this one as my first Baker novel because it was the most recent. I feel like I had read some of Baker's nonfiction (I think maybe a review or two in Harper's), and I'm glad to have tried his fiction. I'll be reading more.

Traveling Sprinkler A Novel

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