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Mockingbird (PB) by Tevis, Walter
Category: Sci-Fi/Fantasy | Series: S.F. Masterworks
The future is a grim place in which the declining human population wanders, drugged and lulled by electronic bliss. It's a world without art, reading and children, a world where people would rather burn themselves alive than endure. Even Spofforth, the most perfect machine ever created, cannot bear it a ...Show more
The Color of Money by Walter Tevis
Category: Fiction
Fast Eddie Felsen was the best in the country--then walked out on his talent and for the next twenty years ran a pool room, got married, and watched pool games on television. One evening he watches a pool player who reminds him of Fats and the match of his life. When the show ends, Eddie goes to his poo ...Show more
The Hustler by Walter Tevis; Perseus
Category: Fiction
"A wonderful hymn to the last true era when men of substance played pool with a vengeance."-Time OutWhen it was first published in 1959, The Hustler was the first--and the best--novel written about billiards in the 400-year history of the game. The book quickly won a respected readership and later an au ...Show more
The Hustler by Walter Tevis
Category: Fiction | Series: W&N Essentials Ser.
Meet Eddie Felsen: a young pool hustler who's keen on winning big and beating the best. So far, he's been earning decent stakes beating small town players, but there's no pride in beating fools. In order to test himself against the best, Eddie seeks out the legendary Minnesota Fats in a smoky poolroom i ...Show more
The Hustler by Walter Tevis
Category: Fiction
To Fast Eddie Felsen, a young pool hustler, there was only one thing that mattered: to make the big time and the big money in the world of pool by beating the best in the country. Hustling suckers in small towns for good stake money was practice for his goal and when he felt ready he went to Bennington' ...Show more
The Man Who Fell to Earth by Walter Tevis
Category: Science Fiction | Series: S. F. Masterworks Ser.
The remarkable novel upon which the stunning cult film was based.'Beautiful ... The story of an extraterrestrial visitor from another planet is designed mainly to say something about life on this one' NEW YORK TIMESThomas Jerome Newton is an extraterrestrial from the planet Anthea, which has been devast ...Show more
The Man Who Fell to Earth by Walter Tevis
Category: Sci-fi & Fantasy
Thomas Jerome Newton is an extraterrestrial from the planet Anthea, which has been devastated by a series of nuclear wars, and whose inhabitants are twice as intelligent as human beings. When he lands on Earth - in Kentucky, disguised as a human - it's with the intention of saving his own people from ex ...Show more
The Man Who Fell to Earth (Masterworks Series) by Walter Tevis
Category: Sci-fi & Fantasy | Series: S.F. Masterworks
Thomas Jerome Newton is an extraterrestrial from the planet Anthea, which has been devastated by a series of nuclear wars, and whose inhabitants are twice as intelligent as human beings. When he lands on Earth - in Kentucky, disguised as a human - it's with the intention of saving his own people from ex ...Show more
The Queen's Gambit by Walter Tevis
Category: Fiction | Series: Vintage Contemporaries Ser.
Engaging and fast-paced, this gripping coming-of-age novel of chess, feminism, and addiction speeds to a conclusion as elegant and satisfying as a mate in four. Eight year-old orphan Beth Harmon is quiet, sullen, and by all appearances unremarkable. That is, until she plays her first game of chess. Her ...Show more
The Queen's Gambit (Netflix Tie-In Edition) by Walter Tevis
Category: Fiction
‘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’ - The Scotsman When she is sent to an orphanage at the ...Show more
The Queen's Gambit: Now a Major Netflix Drama by Walter Tevis
Category: Fiction | Series: W&N Essentials Ser.
Beth Harmon becomes an orphan when her parents are killed in an automobile accident. At eight years old, she is placed in an orphanage in Mount Sterling, Kentucky, where the children are given tranquilizers twice a day. Plain and shy, she learns to play chess from the janitor in the basement and discove ...Show more
The Queen's Gambit (PB) by Walter Tevis
Category: Fiction | Series: W&N Essentials Series
‘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’ - The Scotsman When she is sent to an orphanage at the ag ...Show more