The Queen's Gambit

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The Queen's Gambit

By: Walter Tevis

Narrated by: Amy Landon

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Engaging and fast-paced, this gripping coming-of-age novel of chess, feminism, and addiction speeds to a conclusion as elegant and satisfying as a mate in four.

Eight-year-old orphan Beth Harmon is quiet, sullen, and by all appearances unremarkable. That is, until she plays her first game of chess. Her senses grow sharper, her thinking clearer, and for the first time in her life she feels herself fully in control.

By the age of 16, she's competing for the US Open championship. But as Beth hones her skills on the professional circuit, the stakes get higher, her isolation grows more frightening, and the thought of escape becomes all the more tempting.

Walter TevisAmy LandonBlackstone Audio, Inc.

Fiction

Genre Fiction

Literary Fiction

Adaptation

Chess

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Really excellent; my only criticism is that the narrator makes all the male characters sound a bit stoned.