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The Queen's Gambit

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14th April 2016

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Selected: ebook / ISBN-13: 9781474600859

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When she is sent to an orphanage at the age of eight, Beth Harmon soon discovers two ways to escape her surroundings: playing chess with the janitor and taking the little green pills given to the children to keep them subdued.

Before long, it becomes apparent that hers is an unusual talent, and as she progresses to the top of the US chess rankings she is able to forge a new life for herself. But as Beth hones her skills on the professional circuit, the stakes get higher, her isolation grows more frightening, and the thought of escape becomes all the more tempting . . .

SuperbTime Out
MesmerizingNewsweek
Gripping‘ Financial Times
Sheer entertainment. It is a book I reread every few years – for the pure pleasure and skill of it‘ Michael Ondaatje
Don’t pick this up if you want a night’s sleepScotsman
‘Few novelists have written about genius – and addiction – as acutely as Walter Tevis’ The Telegraph

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New York Times
A psychological thriller
Martin Cruz Smith
More exciting than any thriller I've seen lately; more than that, beautifully written
FINANCIAL TIMES
Gripping reading . . . Nabokov's The Defense and Zweig's The Royal Game are the classics. Now joining them is The Queen's Gambit
Jonathan Lethem
Walter Tevis's most consummate and heartbreaking work
Scotsman
Don't pick this up if you want a night's sleep
Lionel Shriver
Tevis was a great storyteller
Time Out
Superb
Playboy
What Walter Tevis did for pool in The Hustler, he does for chess in The Queen's Gambit
NEWSWEEK
Mesmerizing
Michael Ondaatje
The Queen's Gambit is sheer entertainment. It is a book I reread every few years - for the pure pleasure and skill of it
Michael Ondaatje on The Books He Loves to Re-read, Literary Hub
Walter Tevis is famous for writing The Hustler and The Man Who Fell to Earth, but this is my favorite book of his. It is about a girl who, guided by her somewhat unreliable mother, becomes a child prodigy at chess. Even if you do not know how to play chess, it is a great thriller