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From Nicholson Baker, best-selling author of Vox and the most original writer of his generation, his most controversial novel yet. From the Trade Paperback edition. From Bookmarks Magazine If you don’t like George W., you might like Checkpoint —at least its uncontrolled rage against the administration. In his seventh novel, Baker focuses his trademark style of writing minutiae on a rambling conversation between two Bush detractors. “[It] makes Michael Moore’s Fahrenheit 9/11 look like a work of Jamesian subtlety and nuance. There isn’t a graceful or interesting sentence in this blunt, plotless, obscenity-laden screed,” says Entertainment Weekly . The New York Times Book Review calls it a “scummy little book.” Other reviews did not improve the book’s (or political tirade’s?) standing. Checkpoint may be worth reading as a passionate analysis of the Iraq war, but, even with its heightened emotion, it’s not a very original or engaging one. Copyright © 2004 Phillips & Nelson Media, Inc. From Booklist Jay and Ben are old friends who haven't seen each other in a few years. A former teacher who has fallen on hard times, Jay is very, very upset about the war in Iraq. He has expr

Who reads Checkpoint: A Novel?

Author

Nicholson Baker

Publisher

Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group;Alfred A. Knopf

Published

2005

Language

EN

ISBN

9781400044153

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Literary Fiction, Fiction, Humanities

Rating

2.9 / 5 (607 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-13