The Queen’s Gambit

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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

ISBN: 9781474600842

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Beth Harmon becomes an orphan when her parents are killed in an automobile accident. At eight years old, she is placed in an orphanage in Mount Sterling, Kentucky, where the children are given a tranquiliser twice a day. Plain and shy, she learns to play chess from the janitor in the basement and discovers that she is a chess genius.

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Weight0.229 kg
Dimensions19.8 × 13.2 × 2.5 cm
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Paperback

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English

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813.54 (edition:23)

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General – Trade / Code: K

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