The Queen's Gambit by Walter Tevis

The Queen's Gambit

Walter Tevis

243 pages first pub 1983 (editions)

fiction literary emotional inspiring tense medium-paced
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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. Befo...

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