Checkpoint: A Novel

Nicholson Baker

Random House Digital, Inc., Apr 12, 2005 - Fiction - 128 pages

From the bestselling author of "Vox" and the most original writer of his generation comes his most audacious novel yet. Jay has summoned his old friend Ben to a hotel room not far from the nation's capitol. During the course of an afternoon, Jay will explain exactly why and how he is planning to commit a murder that will change the course of history.

What people are saying

Review: Checkpoint

User Review  - Shonna Froebel - Goodreads

This short novel takes place within a few short hours in a hotel room in Washington DC. The time is during George W Bush's presidency. Jay is upset about the political situation and feeling like he ...

Review: Checkpoint

User Review  - Jim - Goodreads

Reviews of this book are all over the place and I can see why; this is a love-it or loathe-it book. If you hated George W Bush then you might very well sympathise with Jay who plans (he says) to ...

About the author

Nicholson Baker was born in 1957 and attended the Eastman School of Music and Haverford College. He has published six previous novels and three works of nonfiction, includingDouble Fold, which won a National Book Critics Circle Award in 2001.


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Bibliographic information

• Title: Checkpoint: A Novel; Vintage Contemporaries
• Author: Nicholson Baker
• Edition: reprint
• Publisher: Random House Digital, Inc., 2005
• ISBN: 1400079853, 9781400079858
• Length: 128 pages
• Subjects: Fiction / Literary