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01496aam a2200301 4500 001 673DABB2720F11EDB6E4AA0447ECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20221202010048 008 220507s2020||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 020 $a 1400030609 020 $a 9781400030606 040 $d TxAuBib $d SILO 100 1 $a Tevis , Walter, $d 1928-1984. 245 14 $a The Queen's Gambit / $c Walter Tevis. 264 1 $a New York, NY : $b Vintage Books, $c 2020. 300 $a 243 pages : $b 19.5 cm. 520 $a When eight-year-old Beth Harmon's parents are killed in an automobile accident, she is placed in an orphanage in Kentucky. Plain and shy, Beth learns to play chess from the janitor in the basement and discovers she is a prodigy. Though penniless, she is desperate to learn more--and steals a chess magazine and enough money to enter a tournament. Beth also steals some of her foster mother's tranquilizers to which she becomes addicted. At thirteen, Beth wins her first chess tournament. By sixteen she is competing in the U.S. Open Championship and by eighteen she is the U.S. champion and Russia awaits. 534 $a First published in 1983. 541 $d 20220507. 650 7 $a Substance abuse $v Fiction. 650 4 $a Prodigies. 650 $a Chess. 650 $a Chess. $x tournaments. 650 $a Coming-of-age $v Fiction. 650 7 $a Orphans. 941 $a 1 952 $l WHPE115 $d 20221202021415.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=673DABB2720F11EDB6E4AA0447ECA4DBInitiate Another SILO Locator Search