243 pages
English language
Published Feb. 20, 2003 by Vintage Contemporaries.
The Queen's Gambit
by Walter Tevis
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The Queen's Gambit is a 1983 American novel by Walter Tevis, exploring the life of fictional female chess prodigy Beth Harmon. A bildungsroman, or coming-of-age story, it covers themes of adoption, feminism, chess, drug addiction and alcoholism. The book was adapted for the 2020 Netflix miniseries of the same name.
Subjects
- Women chess players -- Fiction