Originally published 1998 | ||
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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. Shriver described the novel as influence by her father's strongly religious values, with the plot "derived glaringly from the New Testament".
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." Publisher Weekly described the Checker "a boy so radiant that his creator has fallen in love with him. And so has the reader."