The Queen's Gambit by Walter Tevis

The Queen's Gambit

Walter Tevis with Lionel Shriver

256 pages first pub 1983 (editions)

fiction literary emotional inspiring tense medium-paced
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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 ...

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