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The Queen's gambit

by Walter S. Tevis

1983 243 pages eng ★ 4.2 (24 ratings)

Beth Harmon, an orphan by eight years old, is unremarkable. She is plain and she knows it. In the Kentucky orphanage, she hordes the tranquilizers handed to the children daily to quell the ache of dullness and routine. A formidable math student, she is allowed to clean the blackboard erasers in t…

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