Name: The Fermata
ISBN: 9780307807496

Nicholson Baker

Having turned phone sex into the subject of an astonishing national bestseller in Vox, Baker now outdoes himself with an outrageously arousing, acrobatically stylish "X-rated sci-fi fantasy that leaves Vox seeming more like mere fiber-optic foreplay" (Seattle Times). "Sparkling."--San Francisco Chronicle.

The Fermata

Arno Strine, a modest temporary typist, has perfected the knack of stopping time in its tracks and taking women's clothes off, he is hard at work on his autobiography, THE FERMATA, which proves in the telling to be a provocative, very funny and altogether morally confused piece of work.

Daryl Houston

The Fermata is pervy, morally uncomfortable, ridiculously funny at times, and has a voice that seems to be sort of an ancestor to Baker's later Paul Chowder. I cringed my way through a lot of it and laughed out loud through the rest.

Jesse Morley

Arno Strine, a thirty-five-year-old office temp and aspiring writer at work on his autobiography, uses his power to stop time in order to remove women's clothes while they are suspended in his temporal warp. Reprint. 60,000 first printing.

The Fermata

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