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U & I: A True Story
Nicholson Baker
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Description for U & I: A True Story
Paperback. Baker's startlingly honest, very funny account of his obsession with John Updike, part of a stunning redesign of Baker's Granta backlist. Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: BGL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 129 x 15. Weight in Grams: 142.
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.
Product Details
Publisher
Granta Books
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Condition
New
Number of Pages
192
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781847083517
SKU
V9781847083517
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About Nicholson Baker
NICHOLSON BAKER was born in New York in 1957. He is the author of eight novels, including The Mezzanine, Vox and Room Temperature (all Granta Books), and five non-fiction works, including U & I (also Granta) and Double Fold: Libraries and the Assault on Paper, for which he won the 2001 National Book Critics Circle Award.
Reviews for U & I: A True Story
Nicholson Baker is a canny modern writer. He is building a sharp and singular library of the interior life and U and I is a decisive and welcome addition
Robert Winder
Independent
An intense, touchy, rivalrous extended essay on his obsession with John Updike ... neither Updike nor anyone else could write a book quite like this
Observer
A subtle, funny and, in its way, profoundly serious study of the means by which art and artists are made
John Banville
Irish Times
One of the most entertaining and penetrating studies of literary admiration since Vladimir Nabokov's Pale Fire
San Francisco Chronicle
A meditation on how we remember, and how we celebrate, writers and writing.
Harper's
Ridiculously talented
Craig Raine
An offbeat homage and confession of authorial anxiety
Sunday Herald
Robert Winder
Independent
An intense, touchy, rivalrous extended essay on his obsession with John Updike ... neither Updike nor anyone else could write a book quite like this
Observer
A subtle, funny and, in its way, profoundly serious study of the means by which art and artists are made
John Banville
Irish Times
One of the most entertaining and penetrating studies of literary admiration since Vladimir Nabokov's Pale Fire
San Francisco Chronicle
A meditation on how we remember, and how we celebrate, writers and writing.
Harper's
Ridiculously talented
Craig Raine
An offbeat homage and confession of authorial anxiety
Sunday Herald