The Queens Gambit (1983) - Walter Tevis
Category: Suspense
Narrator: Amy Landon
Tags: Suspense, Classic, Adults, Contemporary
Publisher: Blackstone Publishing Release date: December 11, 2018 Duration: 11:51:01, When eight-year-old Beth Harmons parents are killed in an automobile accident, she is placed in an orphanage in Mount Sterling, Kentucky. Plain and shy, Beth learns to play chess from the janitor in the basement and discovers she is a prodigy. Though penniless, she is desperate to learn moreand steals a chess magazine and enough money to enter a tournament. Beth also steals some of her foster mothers tranquilizers to which she is becoming addicted., At thirteen, Beth wins the chess tournament. By the age of sixteen she is competing in the US Open Championship and, like Fast Eddie in The Hustler, she hates to lose. By eighteen she is the US championand Russia awaits., Fast-paced and elegantly written, The Queens Gambit is a thriller masquerading as a chess novelone thats sure to keep you on the edge of your seat., Reader comments The Queens Gambit is about professional chess in the same way that David F
