The Mezzanine

A National Book Critics Circle Award–winner elevates the ordinary events that occur to a man on his lunch hour into “a constant delight” of a novel ( The Boston Globe ).   In this startling, witty, and inexhaustibly inventive novel, New York Times –bestselling author Nicholson Baker uses a one-story escalator ride as the occasion for a dazzling reappraisal of everyday objects and rituals. From the humble milk carton to the act of tying one’s shoes,  The Mezzanine  at once defamili