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The Queen's Gambit, Walter Tevis
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- Titel
- The Queen's Gambit
- Sprache
- Englisch
- Autor*innen
- Walter Tevis
- Verlag
- Weidenfeld & Nicolson
- Erscheinungsdatum
- 2020
- Einband
- Paperback
- ISBN10
- 1474622577
- ISBN13
- 9781474622578
- Reihe
- Schlagwörter
- Sachbücher, Historisches Thema, Geschichte, Gegenwartsliteratur, Frankreich, USA, Amerikanische Literatur, Serie, Geschenke für Jugendliche, Russland, Verfilmt, Schach, Alkohol, Drogen, Serienvorlagen, Drogensüchtige, Dark Academia, Genialität, Waisenhäuser
- Erstveröffentlichung
- 1983
- Originaltitel
- The Queen's Gambit
- Bewertung
- 4,15 von 5 Sternen
- Beschreibung
- NOW A MAJOR GOLDEN GLOBE-WINNING NETFLIX SERIES 'Superb' Time Out 'Mesmerizing' Newsweek 'Gripping' Financial Times 'Sheer entertainment. It is a book I reread every few years - for the pure pleasure and skill of it' Michael Ondaatje 'Don't pick this up if you want a night's sleep' Scotsman When she is sent to an orphanage at the age of eight, Beth Harmon soon discovers two ways to escape her surroundings, albeit fleetingly: playing chess and taking the little green pills given to her and the other children to keep them subdued. Before long, it becomes apparent that hers is a prodigious talent, and as she progresses to the top of the US chess rankings she is able to forge a new life for herself. But she can never quite overcome her urge to self-destruct. For Beth, there's more at stake than merely winning and losing. 'I loved it. I just loved it, it really drew me in and I know nothing about chess... The writing about addiction is just fantastic. I underlined so many bits of it... I didn't want it to end' Bryony Gordon on BBC Radio 4 'Few novelists have written about genius - and addiction - as acutely as Walter Tevis' Telegraph