U and I by Nicholson Baker
Bitter news leads a San Diego widow and widower to true love-and to a scheme to marry off their adult children, a plan that goes deliciously awry. Gaetano Lorenzo was the sweetest man that the widowed Estelle Bennett had ever met. That morning began terribly, with awful news, but now the owner and head chef of a local San Diego ristorante was offering up Italian delights: red wine, delicious food, walks on the beach, laughter when she'd never thought she'd laugh again. Estelle felt twenty-five. She and Gaetano had found the recipe for love, and a simple variation might just get their adult children to settle down, too. A scoop of sugar, two ladlefuls of lust, a pinch of deception and a whole 24 oz.-can of danger- Suddenly, ingredients were coming from everywhere But kitchens are crazy places, and variety is the spice of life. And for anything to get cooked, things have to get hot.
Nicholson Baker was born in 1957 and attended the Eastman School of Music and Haverford College. He has published five previous novels-The Mezzanine (1988), Room Temperature (1990), Vox (1992), The Fermata (1994), and The Everlasting Story of Nory (1998)-and three works of nonfiction, U and I (1991), The Size of Thoughts (1996), and Double Fold (2001), which won a National Book Critics Circle Award. In 1999 he founded the American Newspaper Repository, a collection of nineteenth- and twentieth-century newspapers. He lives in Maine with his wife and two children.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780394589947 |
| ISBN 10 | 0394589947 |
| Title | U and I |
| Author | Nicholson Baker |
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| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Random House (NY) |
| Year published | 1991-04-03 |
| Number of pages | 179 |
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