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The Queen's Gambit.

Tevis, Walter. (Author).

Summary:

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 tranquilizers twice a day. Plain and shy, she learns to play chess from the janitor in the basement and discovers she is a chess genius. Penniless and desperate to learn more, she steals a chess magazine and enough money to enter a chess tournament. She also steals some of her foster mother's tranquilizers to which she is becoming addicted. At thirteen she wins the Chess Tournament. By the age of sixteen she is competing in the U.S. Open Championship and, like Fast Eddie, she hates to lose. By eighteen she is the U.S. Champion. Then she goes to Russia to face the Russians . Fast-paced and elegantly written, The Queen's Gambit is a thriller masquerading as a chess novel one that's sure to keep you on the edge of your seat. "The Queen's Gambit is sheer entertainment. It is a book I reread every few years for the pure pleasure and skill of it." Michael Ondaatje

Record details

  • ISBN: 9780795343063
  • ISBN: 079534306X
  • Physical Description: 1 online resource (243 pages)
  • Publisher: [Place of publication not identified] : RosettaBooks, 2014.

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Formatted Contents Note:
Intro; Title Page; Copyright; Dedication; Author's Note; Contents; Chapter One; Chapter Two; Chapter Three; Chapter Four; Chapter Five; Chapter Six; Chapter Seven; Chapter Eight; Chapter Nine; Chapter Ten; Chapter Eleven; Chapter Twelve; Chapter Thirteen; Chapter Fourteen
Source of Description Note:
Vendor-supplied metadata.
Subject: Chess > Juvenile fiction.
Fear > Juvenile fiction.
Children's literature.
FICTION / Literary
Chess.
Children's literature.
Fear.
Genre: Electronic books.
Electronic books.
Fiction.
Juvenile works.

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