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Walter Tevis (1928–1984)

Autor(a) de The Queen's Gambit

24+ Works 5,561 Membros 202 Críticas 6 Favorited

About the Author

Walter Tevis was an English literature professor at the University of Ohio.

Séries

Obras por Walter Tevis

The Queen's Gambit (1983) 2,136 exemplares
The Man Who Fell to Earth (1963) 1,573 exemplares
Mockingbird (1980) 1,058 exemplares
The Hustler (1960) 322 exemplares
Steps Of The Sun (1982) 197 exemplares
The Color of Money (1984) 155 exemplares
Far From Home (1981) — Autor — 71 exemplares
The Big Bounce [short story] (2010) 15 exemplares
The King Is Dead: Stories (2023) 5 exemplares
The Queen’s Gambit [2020 TV miniseries] (2020) — Original book — 3 exemplares
Las huellas del sol (2024) 1 exemplar

Associated Works

100 Great Science Fiction Short Short Stories (1978) — Contribuidor — 407 exemplares
Where Do We Go from Here? (1971) — Contribuidor, algumas edições311 exemplares
The Best from Fantasy and Science Fiction: 9th Series (1961) — Contribuidor — 151 exemplares
The Playboy Book of Science Fiction (1998) — Contribuidor — 131 exemplares
The Hustler [1961 film] (1961) 125 exemplares
The Man Who Fell to Earth [1976 film] (1976) — Original book — 112 exemplares
The Color of Money [1986 film] (1986) — Original book — 87 exemplares
The Second Omni Book of Science Fiction (1983) — Contribuidor — 73 exemplares
Fantasy Annual III (1977) — Contribuidor — 56 exemplares
The Playboy Book of Crime and Suspense (1966) — Contribuidor — 42 exemplares
Galaxy Science Fiction 1957 April, Vol. 13, No. 6 (1957) — Contribuidor — 7 exemplares
Stella a cinque mondi — Contribuidor — 4 exemplares

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One of the best novels I've ever read. I have only a rudimentary understanding of chess, but that was no impediment, due to Tevis's masterly prose.
 
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Osbaldistone | 95 outras críticas | Mar 13, 2024 |
Better than the Netflix movie
 
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ben_r47 | 95 outras críticas | Feb 22, 2024 |
Almost despite himself, Walter Tevis was an amazingly successful writer whose novels have held up very well since his death to lung cancer thirty-nine years ago. I was very slow to pick up a Walter Tevis novel for the first time, but as it turns out, when I finally did (The Queen's Gambit), I already knew more about his books than I realized thanks to several of them having been made into major films. Including The Queen's Gambit, which was adapted into a hit series by Netflix in 2020, four Tevis novels have been filmed. The other three are The Hustler, The Color of Money, and The Man Who Fell to Earth, all of which are familiar to film buffs.

Tevis's hustler, who has come to be known as "Fast Eddie," is a young man who has been working his way across the country from pool hall to pool hall so that when he makes it to Chicago he will have enough money in his pocket to challenge the big boy pool hustlers there. Eddie wants as much as anything to make a reputation for himself, and he will be pleased to learn that his reputation, and expectation of his immanent arrival, precede him to the biggest pool halls in the city.

And that's where Eddie finds his own "white whale" waiting for him in the person of the almost grotesquely fat man who is acknowledged to be the best pool player in the country, one "Minnesota Fats." Fat the man may be, but something almost miraculous happens when he picks up a pool cue and strides toward the table:

"He stepped up to the table with short, quick little steps, stepping up to it sideways, bringing his cue up into position as he did so, so that he was holding his cue, standing sideways to the table, out across his great stomach, the left hand bridge already formed, the right hand holding the butt delicately, as a violinist holds his bow - gracefully but surely...And then Fats began moving around the table, making balls, all of his former ponderousness gone now, his motions like a ballet, the steps light, sure, and rehearsed."

Walter Tevis was an artist himself, and it's passages like this one that prove it to me. His novels are character-driven tales populated by flawed people whose deepest thoughts and motivations are all on full display for the reader to absorb and judge. The Hustler, while not exactly a coming-of-age novel for the young man in question, is one in which Fast Eddie finally figures out who he is and why he is that way. It's a bumpy ride, but with a lot of coaching along the way Eddie turns himself from a loser into a winner. What a shame it is too late.

This 1959 novel was followed, finally, by a 1984 sequel that would turn out to be Tevis's last book. In 1986, The Color of Money was made into a successful movie featuring Paul Newman in a reprisal of his role as Fast Eddie from The Hustler film, and co-starring Tom Cruise as a young pool player that Eddie wants to turn into a professional hustler.
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SamSattler | 5 outras críticas | Jan 24, 2024 |
My first (only??) chess novel. Intriguing, well-written, an absorbing tale.
 
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fmclellan | 95 outras críticas | Jan 23, 2024 |

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Obras
24
Also by
14
Membros
5,561
Popularidade
#4,473
Avaliação
4.0
Críticas
202
ISBN
231
Línguas
20
Marcado como favorito
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