Book summaryBaker writes amusingly and insightfully about his obsession with John Updike, telling us in the process a great deal about himself. Updike himself, in a review, calls Baker's book "a close and self-pitiless examination of his relationship with a mental figment derived from a fractional perusal and a few personal glimpses of the author John Updike," and comments, "[O]ut of the books of others we sift a book of our own, wherein we read the lessons we want to hear." Media reviews"Nicholson Baker is one of the most remarkable and one of the oddest talents to have appeared in the past decade." |
U & Iby Baker, NicholsonFirst edition
Book desription: New York: Random House, 1991. Hardcover First edition Fine in Fine DJ The third book by the then critically successful but still mostly unknown author, a biography about becoming an author. Obsessive as always, here he obsesses on the influence John Updike has had on him: he picks him because he knows more about him than any living writer (Nabokov enters Baker's thoughts throughout). An unusual, funny and quite unique book, a foretaste in a way for what was to come from Baker: everything from literary smut to award-winning essays. After this book came VOX and substantially larger printings.
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