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'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
Walter Tevis (1928-1984) va estudiar Literatura Anglesa a la Universitat de Kentucky i va treballar per al Kentucky Haihgway Departament. Va ser professor de diverses disciplines en escoles secundàries i a la Universitat del Nord de Kentucky, llavors va començar a publicar relats curts en diaris i revistes com Squire, Cosmopolitan, Playboy o The Saturday Evening Post. Durant catorze anys va ser professor de Literatura Anglesa i Escriptura Creativa a la Universitat d'Ohio, feina que va deixar per dedicar-se de ple a l'escriptura. Va ser membre del Sindicat d'Escriptors dels Estats Units.Al llarg de la seva carrera literària va escriure nombrosos relats curts i sis novel·les, algunes de les quals, com El buscavidas i El color del dinero, van ser adaptades al cinema amb gran èxit
