Vox by Nicholson Baker
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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 Americas major writers.
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From the Trade Paperback edition.
Personal Review: Vox by Nicholson Baker
This is a quick little read-just over 40,000 words-about a man and a
woman having phone sex. I've always borne the prejudice that nothing
could be less interesting than phone sex, particularly somebody else's
phone sex. And yet, here we have two people who stray from the topic at

hand (so to speak)and from behind the cloak of anonymity, let fly some
marvelously revealing fragments of everyday life.
Baker has the man say at one point 'an orgasm in a complicated mind is
always more interesting than one in a simple mind'. Aside from the
acknowledgment that orgasms happen in the mind, this is a wonderful
moment. It's one of the many points in this little book when two people take
quiet note of each other's humanity. Read this alongside Philip Roth's
Deception-a book that's structurally identical and worlds away in spirit.
Lynn Hoffman, author of the novel bang BANG
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