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U and I: A True Story

Nicholson Baker

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Baker, one of the most engaging and highly praised examiners of the microscopic matter of daily life (The Mezzanine, Room Temperature), finally takes on a subject his own size--fellow novelist and omnipresent influence John Updike. "Willfully outrageous and often very funny".--The New York Times.

Book Details

  • Publisher: Knopf Publishing Group
  • Publish Date: Feb 4th, 1992
  • Pages: 192
  • Language: English
  • Edition: undefined - undefined
  • Dimensions: 8.00in - 5.17in - 0.53in - 0.48lb
  • EAN: 9780679735755
  • Categories: • General• General

About the Author

Nicholson Baker has published five novels-The Mezzanine, Room Temperature, Vox, The Fermata, and The Everlasting Story of Nory-and two works of nonfiction, U and I and The Size of Thoughts. He lives with his wife and two children in Maine.

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Nelson Rose
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“Life is many days. This will end.” Not a writer, not a critic, not an academic, just a lay reader!

58. U and I: A True Story by Nicholson Baker I’ve now read Baker’s first three “novels,” and I think this one is my favorite (though they’ve all been great). https://t.co/H2lDTRg6zN

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Dr Hannah ÄŚulĂ­k-Baird
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Associate Professor of Classics at UCLA. “Cicero and the Early Latin Poets” (CUP 2022). Fragmentologist. She/her. "chew-leek"

@tindsaylurner Alexander Chee on Annie Dillard in How to write an autobiographical novel, Nicholson Baker on John Updike in U and I

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Joseph O'Neill
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Writer (Netherland, The Dog, Good Trouble etc) Politics @nybooks Ex-barrister. Fading cricketer. @BardCollege teacher

@ziahaiderrahman U and I by Nicholson Baker is stylistically breathtaking.

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