Baker simply wanted to write porn, I think, and chose a quirky way to do it: this is the story of a man who can produce "fermata" - periods in which he can move about freely while everyone and everything else in the world is frozen in time. The activity of choice is undressing women, not any kind of crime-for-gain, and the maintained delusion is that there are no victims. This would have been quite nice without the two chapters of hardcore porn tossed in: stories "written" by our hero in order to be found by target women.

With incredible attention to minute detail, we follow an ordinary guy through an ordinary day. We spend pages on (eg) the fact that his shoelaces snapped today, that straws aren't what they used to be, men's room behavior minute personal interactions. About 25% of the book is footnotes. Interesting, good writing, quirky.