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U & I: A True Story Book

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-aggrandizing. More memoir than literary criticism Baker is excruciatingly honest and U & 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 & I is a very smart and extremely funny exploration of the debts we owe our heroes.Read More

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Foyles
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-aggrandizing. More memoir than literary criticism, Baker is excruciatingly honest, and U & 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 & I is a very smart and extremely funny exploration of the debts we owe our heroes.
Blackwell
Baker's startlingly honest, very funny account of his obsession with John Updike, part of a stunning redesign of Baker's Granta backlist. When Nicholson Baker, one of the most linguistically talented writers in America, set out to write a book...

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U & I: A True Story Book

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