Checkpoint/checkpoint - Softcover

Baker, Nicholson

Softcover

ISBN 10: 842040022X ISBN 13: 9788420400228

Publisher: Alfaguara, S.A. Grupo Santillana,, 2004

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A quick, stripped cry of a book. . . . As timely as fiction gets. Lorrie Moore, "New York Review of Books" Provocative . . . incendiary . . . a great work. Rick Moody, " The Believer" A meditation on action . . . [Baker] analyses the details of daily life with a surgeon s precision. "The Economist" If one of our supreme chroniclers of mild manners can be roused to such patriotic indignation, democracy yet has a fighting chance. " Voice Literary Supplement" A ripped-from-the-headlines docudrama for the printed page, a timely and tense screed for a divided country hurtling toward who knows where. "Associated Press" Checkpoint is about limits of presidential power, of law, of discourse, of rationality, and of language itself. "Boston Phoenix" Compelling . . . a passionate cry from the heart. "USA Today" What makes Baker original is his minute obsessiveness and his willingness to entertain inappropriate subjects. . . "Checkpoint "takes Baker s obsessiveness and inappropriateness into the public realm. " Newsweek" An astonishing, uncomfortable conversation. Baker has a real ear for the cadence and wryness of the modern intelligentsia. "Portland Oregonian" Baker's new novel checks its inhibitions at the door . . . entertaining, edgy and unpredictable." "Las Vegas City Life" Sly, slender but important . . . Baker excels at writing about those facets of the human experience we prefer to hide. "San Francisco Chronicle" This novel could be a kind of record of our times. . . . Its goal is to take [the] internal combustion process of hatred and anger and make it visible which Baker does brilliantly. "Pittsburgh Post-Gazette" On the whole, Baker improves upon Samuel Beckett's [Godot]. Baker's jokes will make people, rather than theatre majors, laugh. "Los Angeles Times" "Checkpoint" is like a hornet: It s small, quiet, with a sinister aspect to its midday peregrinations, and it has a stinger: conscience. "Toronto Globe and Mail" I confess to finding Nicholson Baker s prose so witty and hypnotic that I never want it to stop. "Washington Post" Baker writes like no one else in America. "Newsweek" Baker [is] one of our most gifted and original writers. "Seattle Times" Enthusiast, obsessive, visionary, engineer of the everyday there s nobody quite like Baker in the literary universe. "Newsday" [Baker s] prose is so luminescent and so precise it manually recalibrates our brains. "Time""

"A quick, stripped cry of a book. . . . As timely as fiction gets." -Lorrie Moore, New York Review of Books"Provocative . . . incendiary . . . a great work." -Rick Moody, The Believer "A meditation on action . . . [Baker] analyses the details of daily life with a surgeon's precision." -The Economist"If one of our supreme chroniclers of mild manners can be roused to such patriotic indignation, democracy yet has a fighting chance." -Voice Literary Supplement "A ripped-from-the-headlines docudrama for the printed page, a timely and tense screed for a divided country hurtling toward who knows where." -Associated Press"Checkpoint is about limits-of presidential power, of law, of discourse, of rationality, and of language itself." -Boston Phoenix"Compelling . . . a passionate cry from the heart." -USA Today"What makes Baker original is his minute obsessiveness and his willingness to entertain inappropriate subjects. . . Checkpoint takes Baker's obsessiveness and inappropriateness into the public realm." -Newsweek "An astonishing, uncomfortable conversation. Baker has a real ear for the cadence and wryness of the modern intelligentsia." -Portland Oregonian"Baker's new novel checks its inhibitions at the door . . . entertaining, edgy and unpredictable." -Las Vegas City Life"Sly, slender but important . . . Baker excels at writing about those facets of the human experience we prefer to hide." -San Francisco Chronicle"This novel could be a kind of record of our times. . . . Its goal is to take [the] internal combustion process of hatred and anger and make it visible-which Baker does brilliantly." -Pittsburgh Post-Gazette"On the whole, Baker improves upon Samuel Beckett's [Godot]. Baker's jokes will make people, rather than theatre majors, laugh." -Los Angeles Times"Checkpoint is like a hornet: It's small, quiet, with a sinister aspect to its midday peregrinations, and it has a stinger: conscience." -Toronto Globe and Mail"I confess to finding Nicholson Baker's prose so witty and hypnotic that I never want it to stop." -Washington Post"Baker writes like no one else in America." -Newsweek"Baker [is] one of our most gifted and original writers." -Seattle Times"Enthusiast, obsessive, visionary, engineer of the everyday-there's nobody quite like Baker in the literary universe." -Newsday"[Baker's] prose is so luminescent and so precise it manually recalibrates our brains." -Time

-A quick, stripped cry of a book. . . . As timely as fiction gets.- -Lorrie Moore, New York Review of Books-Provocative . . . incendiary . . . a great work.- -Rick Moody, The Believer -A meditation on action . . . [Baker] analyses the details of daily life with a surgeon's precision.- -The Economist-If one of our supreme chroniclers of mild manners can be roused to such patriotic indignation, democracy yet has a fighting chance.- -Voice Literary Supplement -A ripped-from-the-headlines docudrama for the printed page, a timely and tense screed for a divided country hurtling toward who knows where.- -Associated Press-Checkpoint is about limits-of presidential power, of law, of discourse, of rationality, and of language itself.- -Boston Phoenix-Compelling . . . a passionate cry from the heart.- -USA Today-What makes Baker original is his minute obsessiveness and his willingness to entertain inappropriate subjects. . . Checkpoint takes Baker's obsessiveness and inappropriateness into the public realm.- -Newsweek -An astonishing, uncomfortable conversation. Baker has a real ear for the cadence and wryness of the modern intelligentsia.- -Portland Oregonian-Baker's new novel checks its inhibitions at the door . . . entertaining, edgy and unpredictable.- -Las Vegas City Life-Sly, slender but important . . . Baker excels at writing about those facets of the human experience we prefer to hide.- -San Francisco Chronicle-This novel could be a kind of record of our times. . . . Its goal is to take [the] internal combustion process of hatred and anger and make it visible-which Baker does brilliantly.- -Pittsburgh Post-Gazette-On the whole, Baker improves upon Samuel Beckett's [Godot]. Baker's jokes will make people, rather than theatre majors, laugh.- -Los Angeles Times-Checkpoint is like a hornet: It's small, quiet, with a sinister aspect to its midday peregrinations, and it has a stinger: conscience.- -Toronto Globe and Mail-I confess to finding Nicholson Baker's prose so witty and hypnotic that I never want it to stop.- -Washington Post-Baker writes like no one else in America.- -Newsweek-Baker [is] one of our most gifted and original writers.- -Seattle Times-Enthusiast, obsessive, visionary, engineer of the everyday-there's nobody quite like Baker in the literary universe.- -Newsday-[Baker's] prose is so luminescent and so precise it manually recalibrates our brains.- -Time

Book Description

An incendiary firecracker of a novel about a man who wants to assassinate President Bush.

About this edition

• Publisher: Alfaguara, S.A. Grupo Santillana,
• Publication date: 2004
• ISBN 10: 842040022X
• ISBN 13: 9788420400228
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 120