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Nicholson Baker |
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Village Voice: "Some will balk at Checkpoint's compassionate resolution, its refusal of revolution. Bakerites, however, will recognize a good omen in this election year. If one of our supreme chroniclers of mild manners can be roused to such patriotic indignation, democracy yet has a fighting chance." |
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Format: Paperback, 115
Publisher: Vintage Books (April 12, 2005)
Measurements: 8.25"(h) x 5.25"(w) x 0.5"(d), 0.32 lbs.
ISBN: 9781400079858 |
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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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