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Works by
Nicholson Baker
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July 2, 2004
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The Mezzanine (1988)
Room Temperature: A Novel (1990)
U and I: A True Story (1991)
Vox: A Novel (1992)
The Fermata (1994)
The Size of Thoughts: Essays and Other Lumber (1996)
Size of Thoughts (1998)
The Everlasting Story of Nory (1998)
Double Fold: Libraries and the Assault on Paper (2001)
A Box of Matches: A Novel (2003)
Checkpoint: A Novel
(2004)
Checkpoint is a novella that explores the
peculiar angst many Americans are feeling right now about their country and
their president. The book is set up as a conversation between two old high
school buddies. One of them, in despair about the direction the country is
going, is convinced he must kill the president; the other tries to talk him
out of it.
Baker wrote Checkpoint in response to the powerless seething fury
many Americans felt when President Bush decided to take the nation to war.
"How do you react to something that you think is so hideously wrong?" asks
Baker. "How do you keep it from driving you nuts? What do you do with your
life while this wrong is being carried out? What are the thoughts—the secret
thoughts, the unpublishable thoughts, so to speak—that go through your head?"
Some people have rational responses. Others do not. Baker’s book
does not suggest violence is ever an appropriate response. But in order to
understand the reasons why a violent act is always a mistake, one must first
look at the contemplation of such an act.
The dialogue in Checkpoint is angry, funny, pointed and absurd. All
of it has relevance to our world. And it is through the conversation in this
novel that Baker hopes to raise important questions about how we react to
violence—both individually and as a nation.
Vintage Baker (2004)
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