01951cam a2200385 i 4500 702977042 TxAuBib 20230317120000.0 230227s2023||||||||||||d|||||||||||eng|u 2022949833 9781638086390 hardback : alk. paper $40.95 1638086397 hardback : alk. paper $40.95 (OCoLC)1365032319 TxAuBib rda Dugoni, Robert, author. The world played chess [Large Print] : a novel. Thorndike, Maine : Center Point Large Print, 2023. ©2023. 496 pages (large print) ; 23 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier Regular print version previously published by Amazon Publishing. Includes book club discussion questions and author's acknowledgements note with background information. Includes bibliographical references. "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."-- Provided by publisher. 20230317. Life change events Fiction. Fathers and sons Fiction. Vietnam War, 1961-1975 Fiction. Large type books. Large Print. Historical fiction. Bildungsromans.