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The queen's gambit / Walter Tevis.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: London : Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2020.Description: 243 pages ; 20 cmISBN:
  • 9781474622578 (pbk.) :
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 813.54 23
LOC classification:
  • PS3570.E95
Summary: When she is sent to an orphanage at the age of eight, Beth Harmon soon discovers two ways to escape her surroundings, albeit fleetingly: playing chess and taking the little green pills given to her and the other children to keep them subdued. Before long, it becomes apparent that hers is a prodigious talent, and as she progresses to the top of the US chess rankings she is able to forge a new life for herself. But she can never quite overcome her urge to self-destruct. For Beth, there's more at stake than merely winning and losing.
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Fiction The Harden Library, King's Hospital Fiction Section F TEV (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available R17300J0499

TV tie-in.

Originally published: London: Random House, 1983.

When she is sent to an orphanage at the age of eight, Beth Harmon soon discovers two ways to escape her surroundings, albeit fleetingly: playing chess and taking the little green pills given to her and the other children to keep them subdued. Before long, it becomes apparent that hers is a prodigious talent, and as she progresses to the top of the US chess rankings she is able to forge a new life for herself. But she can never quite overcome her urge to self-destruct. For Beth, there's more at stake than merely winning and losing.

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