Lots of Laughs!, Nicholson Baker
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Lots of Laughs!

Author: Nicholson Baker, John Updike, David Schickler, Etgar Keret, Leonard Michaels, Neil Gaiman, Ron Carlson

Narrator: Thomas Gibson, Charles Keating, Christina Pickles, David Rakoff, Isaiah Sheffer, John Guare, Laura Esterman

Unabridged: 3 hr 5 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Symphony Space

Published: 04/01/2005

Categories: Fiction, Anthologies


Synopsis

Selected Short's most popular volume! Over three hours of stories to tickle your funny bone. Nicholson Baker's "Subsoil"
performed by Thomas Gibson
A darkly comic thriller about a tractor historian besieged by man-eating potatoes. David Schickler's "Jamaica"
performed by Isaiah Sheffer
A man with his head stuck between the banisters has no choice but to listen in on his wife's "Gorgon Book Club." Neil Gaiman's "Chivalry"
performed by Christina Pickles
A delicious tale of an elderly British matron who buys the Holy Grail at a rummage sale. Leonard Michaels' "Nachman from Los Angeles"
performed by David Rakoff
A wonderfully silly tale of misadventure on a college campus. Etgar Keret's "Fatso"
performed by John Guare
An offbeat romance with a very comic nightly ritual.

Author Bio

Nicholson Baker is the author of ten novels and five works of nonfiction, including The Anthologist, The Mezzanine, and Human Smoke. He has won the National Book Critics Circle Award, the Hermann Hesse Prize, and a Katherine Anne Porter Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. He lives in Maine with his wife, Margaret Brentano; both his children went to Maine public schools.

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