U & I

A True Story

By: Nicholson Baker

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Paperback | 7 July 2011 | Edition Number 2

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192 Pages

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Baker's startlingly honest, very funny account of his obsession with John Updike.

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.

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