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Gambito de dama / The Queen's Gambit by Walter Tevis (Paperback, 2021)

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Gambito de dama / The Queen’s Gambit. Author : Tevis, Walter. Used - Acceptable: All pages and the cover are intact, but shrink wrap, dust covers, or boxed set case may be missing. Item may but the dust cover may be missing.

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La serie de hoy. El libro del momento. El personaje de tu vida. El libro en el que se inspira la miniserie mas vista de la historia de Netflix, ganadora del EMMY 2021 y del Globo de Oro 2021 a la mejor miniserie. Walter Tevis ha recuperado el lugar que nunca debio perder [...] y ha provocado una insolita fiebre por el ajedrez. [...] Jaque mate. -Ismael Marinero, El Mundo Un libro que releo cada pocos anos, por puro placer. -Michael Ondaatje Bestseller del New York Times. El personaje de tu vida. El libro en el que se inspira la miniserie mas vista de la historia de Netflix. Un libro que releo cada pocos anos, por puro placer. -Michael Ondaatje Desde su primera publicacion en 1983, esta novela se convirtio en un libro de culto para ajedrecistas en particular y amantes de la gran novela americana en general. Un secreto que de repente exploto a finales de 2020 con el estreno de la serie basada en esta historia, conquistando en tiempo record al mundo entero. Beth Harmon, la protagonista, es ya un icono en la mente de los millones de fans de Gambito de dama: huerfana, solitaria, politoxicomana, competitiva, fragil, genial. Una Mozart del ajedrez cuya inteligencia le brinda tantos exitos como problemas. Esta novela, adictiva, trepidante, y con una tension que no decae en cada partida, en cada viaje, en cada momento de abandono de la protagonista, que siempre oscila entre el exito y el abismo, se quedara en el corazon de los lectores. Y les servira ademas como introduccion al mundo del ajedrez, que, como Beth Harmon, parece tranquilo y accesible, pero contiene debajo todo un volcan de pasiones y peligros. ENGLISH DESCRIPTION New York Times Bestseller. 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 tournament. Beth also steals some of her foster mother's tranquilizers to which she is becoming addicted. At thirteen, Beth wins the chess tournament. By the age of sixteen she is competing in the US Open Championship and, like Fast Eddie in The Hustler, she hates to lose. By eighteen she is the US champion-and Russia awaits . . . Fast-paced and elegantly written, The Queen's Gambit is a thriller masquerading as a chess novel-one that's sure to keep you on the edge of your seat. The Queen's Gambit is sheer entertainment. It is a book I reread every few years-for the pure pleasure and skill of it. -Michael Ondaatje, Man Booker Prize-winning author of The English Patient