![]() ![]() Despite his questionable ethics while ``in the fold''-fondling women's breasts, going through their pocketbooks, writing erotic marginalia in the books they are browsing, stopping their cars and replacing their music cassettes with ones containing his own pornographic compositions-Strine is blithely confident that, since he means no ill will, he is innocent of any wrongdoing. The 35-year-old Strine, appropriately enough, works as a ``temp'' in Boston, moving in and out of various office situations, completing his business and then disappearing. The ``fermata'' of the title refers to the fold in time that narrator Arno Strine can induce this allows him to stop the flow of events around him and proceed in his own fashion to undress unsuspecting women. ![]() Baker follows his surprise bestseller, Vox, with a novel once again filled with elaborate sexual fantasies. ![]()
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