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Nicholson Baker |
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Professional Reviews
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Seattle Times: "CHECKPOINT comes down unmistakably on the side of civility and political process, not assassination. But it's the book's inward rage that sticks with you." |
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Format: Paperback, 120
Publisher: Santillana USA Pub Co Inc (October 31, 2004)
Measurements: 8.75"(h) x 5.5"(w) x 0.25"(d), 0.4 lbs.
ISBN: 9788420400228 |
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First Line
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Jay: Testing, testing. Testing. Testing. |
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Nicholson Baker's CHECKPOINT is unusual in many ways--even for a novelist who thrives on the unusual. It is 115 pages long, it contains only two characters, it is written mostly in dialogue, and it is about one character's desire to assassinate George W. Bush. This character, named Jay, is clearly unbalanced, but he's also seriously angry. (Ben, more of a "traditional liberal," tries to calm him down, or at least deflect his anger.) In this mix of satire, comedy, and suspense, Baker doesn't disguise his own apparent anger at the president, whom Jay refers to as a "squatter" in the White House, and his characters vent freely about the Bush administration in general and the US occupation of Iraq in particular. The title refers to a 2003 incident in the war in which members of a Shiite family trying to flee to safety were cut down by US forces at a checkpoint near Karbala. |
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