books.google.com - 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....http://books.google.com/books/about/U_and_I.html?id=geJMvKZi7sMC&utm_source=gb-gplus-shareU and I
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.
The author writes about his literary hero John Updike and his obsession when contemplating whether he can or does come up to the Updike standard of writing. Funny in places, particularly the meetings between the two writers.Read full review
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A highly eccentric essay about what the works of John Updike mean tithe author. When Baker admits that he hasn't read most of Updike's work and will not revisit the works he has read, I knew this ...Read full review
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.
