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 for t...

Full description

Bibliographic Details

Main Author:	Tevis, Walter S. (Author)
Format:	Books Print Book
Language:	English
Published:	New York : Vintage Contemporaries, [2003]
Subjects:	Women chess players > Fiction. Orphans > Kentucky > Fiction. Chess > Fiction. Fear > Fiction. Psychological fiction. Thrillers (Fiction) Suspense fiction.
Tags:	Add Tag No Tags, Be the first to tag this record!