# The Queen's Gambit

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- Book: [The Queen’s Gambit](https://www.bookquiver.com/walter-tevis/the-queens-gambit) ([The Queen’s Gambit.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/walter-tevis/the-queens-gambit.md))
- Authors: [Walter Tevis](https://www.bookquiver.com/walter-tevis)
- Publisher: Vintage Contemporaries
- ISBN: 978-14-0003-060-6
- Pages: 243
- Published: 2003-03-11
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

NOW A MAJOR GOLDEN GLOBE-WINNING NETFLIX SERIES 'Superb' Time Out 'Mesmerizing' Newsweek '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 sleep' Scotsman 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. 'I loved it. I just loved it, it really drew me in and I know nothing about chess... The writing about addiction is just fantastic. I underlined so many bits of it... I didn't want it to end' Bryony Gordon on BBC Radio 4 'Few novelists have written about genius - and addiction - as acutely as Walter Tevis' Telegraph