The World Played Chess: A Novel (Paperback)

A fearless and sensitive coming-of-age story. I loved it. --Mark Sullivan, bestselling author of Beneath a Scarlet Sky and The Last Green Valley. Bestselling author Robert Dugoni returns with an emotionally arresting follow-up to The Extraordinary Life of Sam Hell. 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.

• | Author: Robert Dugoni
• | Publisher: Lake Union Publishing
• | Publication Date: 14-Sep-21
• | Number of Pages: 400 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Paperback
• | ISBN-10: 1542029392
• | ISBN-13: 9781542029391