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| Title | : | The Chequer Board |
| Author | : | Nevil Shute |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | Deluxe Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 328 pages |
| Published | : | January 1st 2000 by House of Stratus (first published 1947) |
| Categories | : | Fiction. Historical. Historical Fiction. Classics |
Nevil Shute
Paperback | Pages: 328 pages Rating: 4.04 | 1004 Users | 86 Reviews
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John Turner, a young man with a checkered past, has been told he has just one year to live. He decides to use his remaining time in search of three very different men he met in the hospital during the war, each of them in trouble of some kind: a pilot whose wife had betrayed him, a young corporal charged with killing a civilian in a brawl, and a black G.I. wrongly accused of the attempted rape of a white English girl. As Turner discovers where these men have landed on the checkerboard of life, he learns about compassion, tolerance, and second chances, and overcomes his fear of death.
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| Original Title: | The Chequer Board |
| ISBN: | 1842322486 (ISBN13: 9781842322482) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Characters: | John Turner, Phillip Morgan, Dave Lesurier, Douglas Brent |
| Setting: | Myanmar,1946 Penzance, England,1943(United Kingdom) Trenarth, Cornwall, England,1943(United Kingdom) …more Trenarth, Cornwall, England,1946(United Kingdom) …less |
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Ratings: 4.04 From 1004 Users | 86 ReviewsCriticize About Books The Chequer Board
A lovely little book on how life deals with 4 down-on-luck young men who were together in a hospital. Brings your faith back on humanity and second chances. This is my first book by Nevil Shute. He has a very pleasing way of writing and the story moves forward smoothly. The characters are well drawn and they pull you in.'Tis all a Chequer-board of Nights and Days Where Destiny with Men for Pieces plays: Hither and thither moves, and mates, and slays, And one by one back in the Closet lays. Omar Khayyam - RubayatWhat would you do if you were told all of a sudden that you have only one year left to live? For many years I thought that Akira Kurosawa has given the best answer with his movie "Ikiru". Turns out he has a challenger, at least by my reckoning, in this slim novel published five years before the
Reading a Nevil Shute book never leaves me disappointed. The story may be a little tedious at times but it is easy reading and the substance of the story is always timeless and significant. Good character and common sense a always prevail in Shute's novels and I will be very sad when I have read the last of them.
I LOVE NEVIL SHUTE
The more books by Nevil Shute that I read, the more I come to recognize that he is one of the best story-tellers ever. I've enjoyed so many of his books so far; The Far Country, On the Beach, Pied Piper, etc and as I've been slowly exploring his works, I'm enjoying him more than ever.The Chequer Board, published originally in 1947 was no exception. It is set after WWII and tells the story of Capt (Ret'd) Turner. Turner was injured during the war, while on a flight from Africa to England to be
Nevil Shute is one of the best story tellers ever. I reread his books regularly. This one follows four men who meet in a hospital ward in England during WWII. They all are in some kind of trouble. When one finds out he will die fairly soon of his war injury, he searches the world to find out what happened to the other three. An interesting facet of this book is the racial one -- Negro American GIs come to a small town in Cornwall and one man ends up in Burma married to a native woman. Although
The shrapnel from a World War II wound had been in John Turners head for years, but now it was beginning to give him blackouts. The doctor said it was inoperable, and that he probably had only a few months to live. With the time he had left, he decided to track down three other soldiers who had been in the hospital with him to see how their lives had turned out each had been in some kind of trouble when Turner first knew them. One of the men was a black American. The other two were English
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