Reviews for The Chequer Board
Review - Chequer Board, The
It kept my interest. It was a bit scattershot, jumping from story to story, but that's the way Shute writes much of the time.
Reviewed by Roger on 2010-12-25 07:46:51
The Chequer Boardby Nevil Shute | |
| Category: |
"Fiction - General" |
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| Pages: | 255 |
| Year of Publication: | 1947 |
| Date Read: | 12/29/1987 |
| Notes: | A few years after WWII, Turner discovers that a piece of scrapnel in his head is slowly killing him. He has a year to live, and decides to spend that year looking up three men he met in the war. Turner has made some money and he wants to help them out if they need it. One of them has moved to Burma, married a Burmese woman and become a big shot in local government. Another, up on manslaughter charges for killing a man in a bar fight, is working as a butcher. He was only given six months in prison because his training conditioned him to kill and he knew no other way to fight. The third, an American Black soldier, was charged with attempted rape for kissing a British girl. But it develops that he and she were just both scared kids and they guy returns after the war and marries the girl. |
| My Rating: | 6 |