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Walter Tevis

Queen's Gambit: Now a Major Netflix Drama

Queen's Gambit: Now a Major Netflix Drama

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Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 256 pages
Publication date: 29 October 2020
Publisher: Orion Publishing Co

A coming of age story of feminism, chess and addiction

A modern classic about a troubled chess prodigy and her battle to survive.

When she is sent to an orphanage at the age of eight, Beth Harmon soon discovers two ways to escape her surroundings, albeit fleetingly: playing chess and taking the little green pills given to her and the other children to keep them subdued.

Before long, it becomes apparent that hers is a prodigious talent, and as she progresses to the top of the US chess rankings she is able to forge a new life for herself.

But she can never quite overcome her urge to self-destruct. For Beth, there's more at stake than merely winning and losing.

'Few novelists have written about genius - and addiction - as acutely as Walter Tevis' The Telegraph

'Superb' Time Out

'Mesmerizing' Newsweek

'Gripping' Financial Times

'Sheer entertainment. It is a book I reread every few years - for the pure pleasure and skill of it' Michael Ondaatje

'Don't pick this up if you want a night's sleep' Scotsman

Weight: 232g
Dimension: 130 x 197 x 27 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781474622578

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