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The Queen's Gambit: A Novel

✍ Scribed by Walter Tevis

Book ID: 104478045
Publisher: Vintage
Year: 2003
Tongue: English
Weight: 2 MB
Edition: Reprint
Category: Fiction
ISBN-13: 9781400030606

No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.

✦ Synopsis

Engaging and fast-paced, this gripping coming-of-age novel of chess, feminism, and addiction speeds to a conclusion as elegant and satisfying as a mate in four. Now an acclaimed Netflix series.
Eight year-old orphan Beth Harmon is quiet, sullen, and by all appearances unremarkable. That is, until she plays her first game of chess. Her senses grow sharper, her thinking clearer, and for the first time in her life she feels herself fully in control. By the age of sixteen, she’s competing for the U.S. Open championship. But as Beth hones her skills on the professional circuit, the stakes get higher, her isolation grows more frightening, and the thought of escape becomes all the more tempting.

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