Everlasting Story of Nory

nicholson baker

Nory is a nine-year-old American girl spending a year in an English cathedral town, based closely on Ely. She relates her impressions, tells us her favourite stories and dreams, comes to terms with the intricate politics of school friendships and explores the town.

Genres fictionnovelsliterary fictionliteraturebritish literaturechildrensamericancontemporary

0 pages, Hardcover

First published April 14,1998

This edition

Format: 0 pages, Hardcover
Published: May 20, 1998 by Random House Trade
ISBN: 9780676545289
ASIN: 0676545289
Language: English

About the author

nicholson baker

Nicholson Baker is a contemporary American writer of fiction and non-fiction. He was born in Manhattan in 1957 and grew up in Rochester, New York. He has published sixteen books--including The Mezzanine (1988), U and I (1991), Human Smoke (2008), The Anthologist (2009), and Substitute (2016)--and his work has appeared in The New Yorker, The Atlantic, Harper's, the New York Review of Books, Best American Short Stories, and Best American Essays. He has received a National Book Critics Circle award, a James Madison Freedom of Information Award, the Herman Hesse Prize, and the Katherine Anne Porter Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. In 1999, Baker and his wife, Margaret Brentano (co-author with Baker of The World on Sunday, 2005), founded the American Newspaper Repository in order to save a large collection of U.S. newspapers, including a run of Joseph Pulitzer's influential daily, the New York World. In 2004 the Repository's holdings became a gift to Duke University. Baker and Brentano have two children; they live on the Penobscot River in Maine.