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The Queen's Gambit

English · Paperback

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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 tranquillizer 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.

Product details

Authors Walter Tevis, Walter S. Tevis
Publisher Penguin Books Uk
 
Languages English
Product format Paperback
Released 27.08.2009
 
EAN 9780141190389
ISBN 978-0-14-119038-9
Series Penguin Classics
Penguin Modern Classics
Penguin Modern Classics
Penguin Classics
Subject Fiction > Narrative literature

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