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The world played chess : a novel

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"--

Item details

ISBN: 9781542029377
ISBN: 1542029376
ISBN: 9781542029391
ISBN: 1542029392
Physical Description: print
369 pages ; 22 cm
Edition: First edition.
Publisher: Seattle, Washington : Lake Union Publishing, 2021.
Copyright: ©2021

Contents / Notes

General Note:	Includes discussion questions.
Bibliography, etc. Note:	Includes bibliographical references.

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Historical fiction.
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