The Fermata is the most risky of Nicholson Bakers emotional histories. His narrator, Arno Strine, is a 35-year-old office temp who is writing his autobiography. Its harder than I thought! he admits. His Fold-powers are easier; he can stop the world and use it as his own pleasure ground. Arno uses this gift not for evil or material gain (he would feel guilty about stealing), though he does undress a good number of women and momentarily place them in compromising positions--always, in his view, with respect and love. Anyone who can stop time and refer in self-delight to his chronanisms cant be all bad! Like Bakers other books,
The Fermata gains little from synopsis. The pleasure is literally in the text. Whats memorable is less the sex and the sex toys (including the Monasticon, in the shape of a monk holding a vibrating manuscript) than Arnos wistful recollections of intimacy: the noise, for instance, of his ex-girlfriends nail clipper, which I listened to in bed as some listen to real birdsong.
Adolescent it its sexuality, mature in its view
This book is interesting just from the responses people have toward it. Just read the other reviews and you get a flavor. I have given this book to guys and they mostly enjoy it. However, the women who I have given it to have largely disliked it and even been offended. However, I did pass this book onto a woman who worked in a patient care profession in a hospital. She passed it along to her coworkers, all women, who read it and just loved it. I got my very worn copy back several months later.
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