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Baker, the bestselling author of the mezzanine, vox, and the fermata, who. A book of raunch nicholson baker invokes an equalopportunity playland where anybody can seemingly fulfill any sexual. Apart from the sex and the fantasy, house of holes never meant to have anything in common with the fermata. Nicholson bakers latest books subheading has it absolutely right. In the opening scene, a woman named shandee is visiting a quarry with her geology 101 class. Luna meets a man made of light bulbs at a tanning parlor.
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