by Walter Tevis · W&N · tapa blanda · ISBN 9781474622578
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«The Queen's Gambit» is the contemporary novel by Walter Tevis, published by W&N in hardcover (256 pages, in English).
At age eight, Beth Harmon enters an orphanage and finds two escapes: chess and the green pills used to keep the children subdued. Her talent takes her to the top of US chess and a new life, but she cannot overcome her self-destructive impulse; for her, every game is much more than winning or losing.
It belongs to the W&N Essentials collection from Weidenfeld & Nicolson; the novel was originally published in 1983 and this edition appeared on October 29, 2020.
For readers of contemporary fiction, fans of the Netflix series and chess enthusiasts.
Walter Stone Tevis Jr. was an American novelist and screenwriter. Three of his six novels were adapted into major films: The Hustler, The Color of Money and The Man Who Fell to Earth. A fourth, The Queen’s Gambit, was adapted into a miniseries with the same title and shown on Netflix in 2020. His books have been translated into at least 18 languages.
