by Walter Tevis, Walter S. Tevis
Netflix's most watched limited series to date! The thrilling novel of one young woman's journey through the worlds of chess and drug addiction. When eight-year-old Beth Harmon's parents are killed in an automobile accident, she's placed in an orphanage in Mount Sterling, 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 tourna
ISBN: 9780795343063
243 pages
Published: 2014-09-29
Publisher: Open Road Integrated Media, Inc.