02585cam a2200313 4500 523542571 TxAuBib 20210904120000.0 ||||||s2014||||||||||||||||||||||||und|u 9780795343063 079534306X B07H185G5T Amazon 6a234ac0-0352-485d-8e56-141d9e87d3a6 OverDrive (Reserve ID) 4275969 OverDrive (Product ID) TxAuBib Tevis, Walter. The Queen's Gambit [Libby]. RosettaBooks, 2014. Format: OverDrive Adobe EPUB eBook, Filesize: 1563kB. Format: OverDrive Kindle Book. Format: OverDrive OverDrive Read. Fiction. Literature. HTML:<p><b>The basis for the hit Netflix series! "What Walter Tevis did for pool in <i>The Hustler</i>, he does for chess in <i>The Queen's Gambit</i>" (<i>Playboy</i>).</b><br /> <br /> When eight-year-old Beth Harmon's parents are killed in an automobile accident, she's 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 more—and steals a chess magazine and enough money to enter a tournament. Beth also steals some of her foster mother's tranquilizers to which she is becoming addicted.<br /> <br /> 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 <i>The Hustler</i>, she hates to lose. By eighteen she is the US champion—and Russia awaits . . .<br /> <br /> Fast-paced and elegantly written, <i>The Queen's Gambit</i> is a thriller masquerading as a chess novel—one that's sure to keep you on the edge of your seat.<br /> <br /> "<i>The Queen's Gambit</i> is sheer entertainment. It is a book I reread every few years—for the pure pleasure and skill of it." —Michael Ondaatje, Man Booker Prize–winning author of <i>The English Patient</i></p>. Media Type: eBook. Importer Version: 2014-01-08.01 Import Date: 2021-11-04 13:21:58. https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=6a234ac0-0352-485d-8e56-141d9e87d3a6&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (Adobe EPUB eBook) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=6a234ac0-0352-485d-8e56-141d9e87d3a6&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (Kindle Book) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=6a234ac0-0352-485d-8e56-141d9e87d3a6&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (OverDrive Read)