Checker and the derailleurs

Lionel Shriver

Original title: Checker and the Derailleurs

first published 1988 Farrar Straus Giroux, 1988 319 pages

Contemporary American fiction

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 anot...

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Editions we hold

Checker and the Derailleurs edition · 2015 · HarperCollins Publishers Limited · 9780007564040
Checker and the Derailleurs edition · 2015 · HarperCollins Publishers Limited · 9780007564033
Checker and The Derailleurs audiobook · 2013 · Brilliance Audio · 9781480541955
Checker and The Derailleurs audiobook · 2009 · Brilliance Audio · 9781423397137
Checker and the Derailleurs edition · 2009 · HarperCollins · 9780061899324
Checker and the Derailleurs paperback · 2009 · Harper Perennial · 368 pages · 9780061711374
Checker and the derailleurs edition · 1989 · Penguin Books · 319 pages
Checker and the Derailleurs edition · 1988 · Farrar Straus Giroux · 319 pages

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