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Название книги: U and I: A True Story Авторы: Baker Nicholson Жанры: prose_contemporary, nonf_biography, nonf_criticism Файл: fb2-536000-540999.zip/538398.fb2 Размер файла: 371,1 КБ Язык: Английский |
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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 |