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The World Played Chess

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 40 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.

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The World Played Chess
by Robert Dugoni

  • Publication Date: September 14, 2021
  • Genres: Fiction
  • Hardcover: 400 pages
  • Publisher: Lake Union Publishing
  • ISBN-10: 1542029376
  • ISBN-13: 9781542029377