The Nerd Author:Larry Shue Laughs, guffaws, chuckles and gargantuan grins - that's the stuff Larry Shue's THE NERD is made of! It all begins when Rick Steadman (chalk inspector) comes to visit Willum Cubbert (architect)... and stays. Rick, who saved Willum's life in Vietnam (he dragged him off a flak-riddled airstrip to safety and surgery), has arrived with his brother's ... more »credit cards and life savings (a clue to how much the big brother wanted him gone?). Now Willum, who never got to know anything about Rick - except his name and address - must try to repay his rescuer, who just happens to be a living, breathing disaster area, oblivious to insult, impenetrable to reason and impervious to rejection...« less