Checker and The Derailleurs - Lionel Shriver Fiction

Author, Title or Keyword

BROWSE BY CATEGORY

Foreign Language Study

LATEST RELEASES

Where Angels Fear to Tread: A Remy Chandler Novel

Thomas E. Sniegoski
Six-year-old Zoe York has been taken, and her mother comes to Remy for help.$24.99

» More Info

Great American Novel

Philip Roth
Philip Roth turns baseball’s status as national pastime and myth into the occasion for unfettered picaresque farce.$24.99

» More Info

Ravished

Amanda Quick
There was no doubt about it. What Miss Harriet Pomeroy needed was a man. Someone powerful and clever who could help her rout unscrupulous thieves.$24.99

» More Info

Harvest

Belva Plain
Harvest continues the story of the family of the wealthy Paul Werner, last met in Tapestry.$24.99

» More Info

Thorn Birds

Colleen McCullough
Colleen McCullough's acclaimed masterwork remains a monumental literary achievement—a landmark novel to be cherished and read again and again.$31.99

» More Info

Reap the Wind

Iris Johansen
Some would kill to know what Caitlin Vasaro knows. For the secrets she's kept hidden all her life are the kind the rich and powerful will do anything to possess.$24.99

» More Info

Numbers

Rachel Ward
Numbers that pop into her head when she looks into someone’s eyes. They’re dates, the numbers. Dates predicting with brute accuracy each person’s death.$24.99

» More Info

Checker and The Derailleurs

See Larger Image	Category :	Fiction

	Publisher :	Brilliance Audio Inc
	Author :	Lionel Shriver
	Narrator :	MacLeod Andrews

	Length :	11 hours (Unabridged)

Download Price :		$24.99

Format :		Encoded Windows Media

World English

© 2010 Brilliance Audio Inc

ADD TO BASKET

HEAR SAMPLE

Beautiful and charismatic, nineteen-year-old Checker Secretti is the most gifted and original drummer that the club-goers of Astoria, Queens, have ever heard.

When he plays, conundrums seem to solve themselves, brilliant thoughts spring to mind, and couples fall in love. The members of his band, The Derailleurs, are passionately devoted to their guiding spirit, as are all who fall under Checker’s spell. But when another drummer, Eaton Striker, hears the prodigy play, he is pulled inexorably into Checker’s orbit by a powerful combination of envy and admiration.

Soon The Derailleurs, too, are torn apart by latent jealousies that Eaton does his utmost to bring alive.

“A bittersweet, graceful, poetic, yet clear-sighted vision....A tale about good and evil, and about the promise and pain of being nineteen.” – Cleveland Plain Dealer

“More compelling even than the plot turns are Shriver’s insights into human nature....Checker and The Derailleurs, like its beguiling protagonist, is hard to forget.” – People

Fiction categories

All Action & Adventure Classics Comedy Detective Erotica Foreign Language Content General Historical Horror & Suspense Religious Romance Sci-Fi & Fantasy Short Stories Thriller War & Military Western Miscellaneous

RECOMMENDED

Arch of Triumph

Erich Maria Remarque
Ravic, a German doctor and refugee living in Paris in 1939, has been treating some of the city's most elite citizens, all the while searching for the Nazi who tortured him back in Germany. Although...$26.99

» More Info

Sisterhood, The

Michael Palmer
"Terrific, a compellingly suspenseful read." -Clive Cussler.$24.99

» More Info

Eagle's Cry: A Novel of the Louisiana Purchase

David Nevin
French Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte has gained control of New Orleans. As France forces the young nation's hand economically and politically, the greatest minds and visionaries of a young America str...$33.49

» More Info

Jazz 101

John F. Szwed
Jazz 101 makes jazz, with all its intricacies of artistry and vast array of forms, accessible to readers through Szwed's fluid, entertaining prose. Infinitely readable and highly entertaining, Jazz...$15.49

» More Info

Headlong

Michael Frayn
Martin Clay, an easily distracted philosopher, and his art historian wife are assessing the value of three dusty paintings, when Martin chances on to one of the world's lost treasures, begrimed wit...$21.75

» More Info

Close Quarters

Larry Heinemann
From the moment his first novel was published, Larry Heinemann joined the ranks of the great chroniclers of the Vietnam conflict. Here, in the stripped-down, unsullied patois of an ordinary soldier...$21.75

» More Info


Home	Special Offers	Free	My Library	Basket	Help