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Walter Tevis
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The Queen's Gambit
by Walter Tevis
Walter Tevis's The Queen's Gambit follows Beth Harmon from a Kentucky orphanage into the heights of competitive chess, tangled the whole way with the pills she can't leave alone. It's a coming-of-age story about a girl whose genius doubles as her hiding place, and it reads like nothing else on the literary-fiction shelf.