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Rent Checker and the Derailleurs
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Narrator: Andrews, MacLeod
Format: Unabridged-CD, Paperback
Publisher: Brilliance Corporation
Published: Aug 2009
Genre: Fiction - General
Retail Price: $36.99
Discs: 9
Synopsis
Beautiful and charismatic, the nineteen-year-old Checker Secretti is the most gifted 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. His band, The Derailleurs, is passionately devoted to their guiding spirit, as are all who fall under Checker's spell. But when another drummer, Eaton Striker, hears the prodigy play, he is pulled inexorably into Checker's orbit by a powerful combination of admiration and envy. Soon the Derailleurs, too, are torn apart by latent jealousies that Eaton does his utmost to bring alive.
"A bittersweet, graceful, poetic yet clear-sighted vision....A tale about good and evil, and about the promise and pain of being nineteen." – Cleveland Plain Dealer
"More compelling even than the plot turns are Shriver's insights into human nature....Checker and the Derailleurs, like its beguiling protagonist, is hard to forget." – People
Reviews
The author perfectly captures my experience of the inane self absorption of the young and musically gifted, where the rude and loud are celebrated and the nice exploited. It would have been a great subject for satire but it turned out not to be that kind of book.Maybe I didnt get far enough. After about the fifth disk, when the glassblowing woman, in a rare amiable moment has a hearttoheart with Checker and shares the revelation that everybodys dad dies and everyone originally comes out of a woman, I couldnt bear it any more.If youve always wondered what it would have been like to hang out with a rock band in the 1980s, this is your book.