Sales poor for best-selling author's anti-Bush novel

Monday, August 30, 2004

NEW YORK -- Yes, there are limits to what George Bush haters will read. "Checkpoint," the controversial Nicholson Baker novel about a man who wants to kill the president, has sold fewer than 6,500 copies since coming out two weeks ago, the book's publisher said.

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