The Queen's gambit
Eight year-old orphan Beth Harmon is quiet, sullen, and by all appearances unremarkable. That is until she plays her first game of chess. Her senses grow sharper, her thinking clearer, and for the first time in her life she feels herself fully in control. By the age of sixteen, she's competing...
| Main Author: | Tevis, Walter S. (Author) |
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| Format: | Books Print Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Vintage Contemporaries,
[2003]
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