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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-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.

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Book category Books in English Biography & True Stories Biography: general Biography: literary

• Full title: U & I
• Author: Nicholson Baker
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 192
• EAN: 9781847083517
• ISBN: 184708351X
• ID: 04377623
• Publisher: Granta Books
• Weight: 142 g
• Dimensions: 197 × 129 × 15 mm
• Date of publishing: 07. July 2011

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