Nicholson Baker

Arno Strine, a modest temporary typist, has perfected the knack of stopping time in its tracks and taking women's clothes off, he is hard at work on his autobiography, THE FERMATA, which proves in the telling to be a provocative, very funny and altogether morally confused piece of work.

The Fermata

Daryl Houston

The Fermata is pervy, morally uncomfortable, ridiculously funny at times, and has a voice that seems to be sort of an ancestor to Baker's later Paul Chowder. I cringed my way through a lot of it and laughed out loud through the rest.

Arno Strine, a thirty-five-year-old office temp and aspiring writer at work on his autobiography, uses his power to stop time in order to remove women's clothes while they are suspended in his temporal warp. Reprint. 60,000 first printing.

The Fermata

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