Tv tropes emily wants to play7/29/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() From its first sentence (“Beth learned of her mother’s death from a woman with a clipboard”) to its last, it was my platonic ideal of a novel. It was a staff pick, and the blurb on the blue index card taped underneath said something like “sleeper gem by dude who wrote ‘The Man Who Fell to Earth,’ about an orphaned chess prodigy addicted to downers-read this now.” On the cover, Michael Ondaatje, the author of “The English Patient,” said that he reread it “every few years-for the pure pleasure and skill of it.” I read it in two days, and over the years I have reread it probably a dozen times. ![]() ![]() I picked up Walter Tevis’s novel “ The Queen’s Gambit,” from 1983, at Skylight Books, in Los Angeles, sometime around 2002. ![]()
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