BOOK REVIEW / PAPERBACKS: Vox - Nicholson Baker: Granta, pounds 4.99

Odd that the acrobatic author of The Mezzanine and Room Temperature bombed with the subject of sex. This novel records the (seemingly endless) conversation between two strangers who 'meet' on a chat-line. This being Baker, they digress; but mainly they exchange masturbatory fantasies of - amazingly from a writer who can make the design of a sandwich bag sexy - numbingly unerotic gaucheness.