Title: A thrilling novel mixing high and low
Product review: The Fermata is an amazing novel by an extraodinarily gifted writer; all the sex and hoop-la can't distract from the innovative vantage point that is Nicholson Baker's. Perhaps the most gratifying thing about the novel is its eagerness to mix the highbrow (technique, language), and the lowbrow (pornographic subject matter), herein resembling Nabokov's Lolita. The Fermata is a tour de force of comic execution, displaying a rare shrewdness and tenderness. Baker's use of language is simply astonishing: the musicality of his prose is particularly delightful. A hugely gifted stylist, Baker is a writer who has an almost magical ability--he enchants and charms like no other.
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