286 pages
English language
Published Feb. 20, 1984 by Pan in association with Heinemann.
The queen's gambit
by Walter Tevis
Walter Tevis: The queen's gambit (1984, Pan in association with Heinemann)
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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.
