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Checkpoint

✍ Scribed by Baker, Nicholson

Book ID: 108124908
Publisher: Vintage
Year: 2004
Tongue: English
Weight: 43 KB
Category: Fiction
ISBN-13: 9781400044153

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✦ Synopsis

From Nicholson Baker, best-selling author of Vox and the most original writer of his generation, his most controversial novel yet.

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.

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