The Chequer Board

by Nevil Shute

Book Overview

A young man with a chequered past, has been told he has just one year to live. He decides to use his time in search of three very different men he met briefly during the war: a snobbish British pilot,... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Mass Market Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 034532174X
• ISBN13: 9780345321749
• Release Date: February 1985
• Publisher: Ballantine Books
• Length: 255 Pages
• Weight: 0.30 lbs.

Customer Reviews

Great Read

I read this book 15 years ago and I still feel nostalgic when I think about it. A great read which leaves you with that nice quiet feeling at the end, in spite of an active story line.I would also recommend "Round The Bend" by Shute.

Thought Provoking & Beautifully Written

Nevil Shute's Chequer Board is just what it's title indicates: a checkerboard of characters, places and lives. All are sought out by one man who knew them all only briefly and now, that he is close to death, he wants to "see how they are doing." The novel came out in the late 1940's and refers back to World War II and how four men who survived the crashing of a plane returning from North Africa get on with their lives. Mr. Shute's writing is crisp and lively, his characters come off as very real and each of them touches the reader in his own special way. If you can ever find it, definitely pick up this book and let Nevil Shute take you on a wonderful ride tha you won't soon forget.

One of Nevil Shute's best

Nevil Shute is best known for "On the Beach," his novelabout nuclear war, and, more recently, "A Town Like Alice,"which was made into a TV miniseries. At least half a dozen of his other novels are equally wonderful. My paperback copy of "The Chequer Board" is worn out from reading, rereading, and lending, and it is time for me to replace it with a hardback. His account of relations between black American soldiers and the English during World War II is particularly touching, and is a bit of history that was unfamiliar to me.