Travelling Sprinkler - Softcover

Nicholson Baker was born in New York City in 1957 and grew up in Rochester. In his many works of fiction and nonfiction (including Vox, Checkpoint and Human Smoke), he has written about John Updike, about getting up early in the morning, about the inner life of a nine-year-old girl, about a man on his lunch hour, about the beginnings of the Second World War, about sex, and many other subjects too numerous to list here. Travelling Sprinkler is his tenth novel and his fifteenth book. He lives in Maine with his family.

Exquisitely sublime * The New York Times * Goofy and elegaic, intricately patterned and moving * New Yorker * Baker's endearingly comedic, covertly philosophical love story mischievously celebrates song and silence, steadfastness and loving-kindness * Booklist * The book is a delight: funny, tender and endearingly bonkers. A lesser writer dealing with a hapless, guitar-plucking, cigar-puffing poet on the slide in his fifties would be tempted to shovel trouble at him for comic or emotional effect. Baker does the opposite, imbuing Chowder not only with a feverish intellectual curiosity but with a generosity of spirit...Baker has a strange and interesting mind, and a life-enhancing wit to go with it. Travelling Sprinkler sees him at the top of his form. -- Terence Blacker * Independent * He once again shows he's a master of gentle, obsessively detailed comedy. Terrific. -- Harry Ritchie * Daily Mail * melancholic and sweet -- William Leith * Evening Standard * Genial, softly upbeat, written as flowingly as if he were telling a friend about his day * Mail on Sunday *