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The world played chess / Robert Dugoni.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Thorndike, Maine : Center Point Large Print, 2023Copyright date: �2021Edition: Center Point Large Print editionDescription: 496 pages (large print) ; 23 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9781638086390
  • 1638086397
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Summary: "In 1979, Vincent Bianco has just graduated high school. His only desire: collect a little beer money and enjoy his final summer before college. So he lands a job as a laborer on a construction crew. Working alongside two Vietnam vets, one suffering from PTSD, Vincent gets the education of a lifetime. Now forty years later, with his own son leaving for college, the lessons of that summer - Vincent's last taste of innocence and first taste of real life - dramatically unfold in a novel about breaking away, shaping a life, and seeking one's own destiny."-- Provided by publisher.
List(s) this item appears in: April Acquisitions--Fiction
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Regular print version previously published by Amazon Publishing.

Includes book club discussion questions and author's acknowledgements note with background information.

"In 1979, Vincent Bianco has just graduated high school. His only desire: collect a little beer money and enjoy his final summer before college. So he lands a job as a laborer on a construction crew. Working alongside two Vietnam vets, one suffering from PTSD, Vincent gets the education of a lifetime. Now forty years later, with his own son leaving for college, the lessons of that summer - Vincent's last taste of innocence and first taste of real life - dramatically unfold in a novel about breaking away, shaping a life, and seeking one's own destiny."-- Provided by publisher.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 490-492)

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