Description
| Author/Contributor(s): | Tevis, Walter |
| Publisher: | Vintage |
| Date: | 3/11/2003 |
| Binding: | Paperback |
| Condition: | NEW |
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Engaging and fast-paced, this gripping coming-of-age novel of chess, feminism, and addiction speeds to a conclusion as elegant and satisfying as a mate in four. Now a highly acclaimed, award-winning Netflix series.
Eight year-old orphan Beth Harmon is quiet, sullen, and by all appearances is, until she plays her first game of chess. Her senses grow sharper, her thinkingclearer, and for the first time in her life she feels herself fully in control. Bythe age of sixteen, she’s competing for the U.S. Open championship. But as Beth honesher skills on the professional circuit, the stakes get higher, her isolation growsmore frightening, and the thought of escape becomes all the more tempting.
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