Checker and the Derailleurs

Checker and the Deraillurs is a 1988 novel by American novelist Lionel Shriver. The novel, Shriver's second, follows the dramatic life of rock drummer for the Deraillurs band of Queens, Checker Secretti as he goes through a series of relationships and social exchanges.[1] Shriver described the novel as influence by her father's strongly religious values, with the plot "derived glaringly from the New Testament".[2]

People magazine reviewed the novel in 1988, concluding that "Shriver's breezy, hip style can be irritating; so can her slips into psychobabble. But Checker and the Derailleurs, like its beguiling protagonist, is hard to forget."[1] Publisher Weekly described the Checker "a boy so radiant that his creator has fallen in love with him. And so has the reader."[3]

References

  1. 1 2 "Picks and Pans Review: Checker and the Derailleurs : People.com". www.people.com. Retrieved 2016-05-24.
  2. ↑ Shriver, Lionel (2008-06-14). "My old man: Lionel Shriver". the Guardian. Retrieved 2016-05-24.
  3. ↑ "Book Review: Checker and the Derailleurs by Lionel Shriver, Author Penguin Books $7.95 (336p) ISBN 978-0-14-012058-5". PublishersWeekly.com. Retrieved 2016-05-24.


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