The queen's gambit
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Beth Harmon becomes an orphan at eight after her parents die in an accident. She is placed in an orphanage in Kentucky, where children receive tranquillizers. Shy and plain, she learns chess from the janitor and realizes she is a chess prodigy.
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The queen's gambit, Walter Tevis
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- Released
- 2016
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- Title
- The queen's gambit
- Language
- English
- Authors
- Walter Tevis
- Publisher
- Weidenfeld & Nicolson
- Released
- 2016
- Format
- Paperback
- ISBN10
- 1474600840
- ISBN13
- 9781474600842
- Collection
- W&N modern classics
- Category
- World prose
- Description
- Beth Harmon becomes an orphan at eight after her parents die in an accident. She is placed in an orphanage in Kentucky, where children receive tranquillizers. Shy and plain, she learns chess from the janitor and realizes she is a chess prodigy.