Imprint: Vintage
Published: 01/01/2004
ISBN: 9780099448389
Length: 192 Pages
Dimensions: 198mm x 13mm x 129mm
Weight: 139g
RRP: £9.99
A man gets up earlier and earlier each day, dresses in the dark, makes his coffee and lights the fire with a box of matches. Then he rummages through the thoughts that crowd his head and preoccupy him. Here is mid-life domesticated man, whose thoughts veer brilliantly from love and marriage, to firelighters and suicide, in the twinkling of an eye.
This is Baker at his best, humorous and observant, revealing the underlying truths about the ephemerality of life, the joy of small things, the darkness just the other side of everyday life - all human life in a box of matches.
Imprint: Vintage
Published: 01/01/2004
ISBN: 9780099448389
Length: 192 Pages
Dimensions: 198mm x 13mm x 129mm
Weight: 139g
RRP: £9.99
Extraordinary prose
As Kipling was to the secrets of the jungle, so is Baker to modern domesticity, equally ready with fascinating observation
There is a good deal more everyday wonder here than in a hundred original miscellanies
This might be Baker's best yet - you're in for a treat
Like the small, agreeable sensations it so deftly evokes, this modestly scaled story is a pleasure that can add cheer to an entire day