The Sunday Telegraph London, September 12th, 2004
Checkpoint by Nicholson Baker Chatto & Windus, pounds 6.99, 115 pp pounds 6.99 ( pounds 2.25 p&p) 0870 155 7222 NICHOLSON BAKER 's "novel" has created a furore in the United States, purely, it seems, because of its subject matter: the planned assassination of George W. Bush. This is perhaps the most fascinating thing about this odd, abortive, short yet desperately rambling playlet. For Americans, it seems, such divinity still hedges the presidential office that even the peepings of fiction can cause outrage. Nothing else, surely, can explain the "controversy" whipped up around this extre...
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