A trip to Lexington with Beth Harmon and Walter Tevis

The lives of Walter Tevis and his literary character Beth Harmon have a number of similarities. Both of them experienced a childhood marked by drug addiction, and later, alcoholism, both "lived" in Lexington, Kentucky. And both of them found their salvation in chess. A hunt for clues in Lexington.

A trip to Lexington with Beth Harmon and Walter Tevis

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