# A Box of Matches

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- Book: [A Box of Matches](https://www.bookquiver.com/nicholson-baker/a-box-of-matches) ([A Box of Matches.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/nicholson-baker/a-box-of-matches.md))
- Authors: [Nicholson Baker](https://www.bookquiver.com/nicholson-baker)
- Publisher: Vintage
- ISBN: 978-03-7570-603-5
- Pages: 192
- Published: 2004-03-09
- Language: en_US
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

Emmett has a wife and two children, a cat, and a duck, and he wants to know what life is about. Every day he gets up before dawn, makes a cup of coffee in the dark, lights a fire with one wooden match,...