The queen's gambit
Tevis, Walter S.2016
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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 a tranquiliser twice a day. Plain and shy, she learns to play chess from the janitor in the basement and discovers that she is a chess genius.
Main title:
The queen's gambit / Walter Tevis.
Author:
Tevis, Walter S., author
Imprint:
London : Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2016.
Collation:
272 pages ; 20 cm
ISBN:
9781474600842 (pbk)9781474600859 (ePub ebook)
Dewey class:
813.5'4
Local class:
FYA
Language:
English
BRN:
1372922