U AND I

A True Story

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Nicholson Baker

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When Nicholson Baker, one of the most linguistically talented writers in America, set out to write a book about John Updike, the result was no ordinary biography. Instead Baker's account of his relationship with his hero is a hilarious story of ambition, obsession, talent and neurosis, alternately self-deprecating and self-aggrandising. More memoir than literary criticism, Baker is excruciatingly honest, and U and I reveals at least as much about Baker himself as it does about his idol. Written twenty years before Updike's death in 2009, U and I is a very smart and extremely funny exploration of the debts we owe our heroes.

Author Biography:

Nicholson Baker was born in New York in 1957. He is the author of eight novels, including The Mezzanine, Vox and Room Temperature, and five non-fiction works, including U and I and Double Fold: Libraries and the Assault on Paper, for which he won the 2001 National Book Critics Circle Award.

Release date NZ

July 7th, 2011

Author

Nicholson Baker

Audience

General (US: Trade)

Pages

192

Dimensions

129x198x12

ISBN-13

9781847083517

Product ID

10421815

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