Game of Kings: A Year Among the Oddballs and Geniuses Who Make Up America's Top HighSchool Ches s Team

Author:   Michael Weinreb
Publisher:   Gotham Books
ISBN:  

9781592403387


Pages:   304
Publication Date:   27 December 2007
Format:   Paperback
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Author:   Michael Weinreb
Publisher:   Gotham Books
Imprint:   Gotham Books
Dimensions:   Width: 13.20cm , Height: 2.10cm , Length: 20.10cm
Weight:   0.255kg
ISBN:  

9781592403387


ISBN 10:   1592403387
Pages:   304
Publication Date:   27 December 2007
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Inactive
Availability:   Out of stock   Availability explained

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?In this thrilling, vigorously reported, deeply empathic book, Michael Weinreb . . . brings to vivid life a contemporary chess world suffused with its own updated version of nerd machismo.?<br> ? The New York Times Book Review <br><br> ?Fascinating. . . . [ Game of Kings ] does for high school chess what Buzz Bissinger's 1991 bestseller, Friday Night Lights , did for high school football.?<br> ? USA Today <br><br> ?Writing with the deft, propulsive style of a young Frank Deford, Michael Weinreb has captured both the intellectual insanity?and the curious normalcy?of what it's like to be a teenaged super-genius. [ Game of Kings ] is the Friday Night Lights of high school chess.?<br> ?Chuck Klosterman, author of Sex, Drugs and Cocoa Puffs and Chuck Klosterman IV <br><br>


aIn this thrilling, vigorously reported, deeply empathic book, Michael Weinreb . . . brings to vivid life a contemporary chess world suffused with its own updated version of nerd machismo.a<br> a The New York Times Book Review <br> aFascinating. . . . [ Game of Kings ] does for high school chess what Buzz Bissingeras 1991 bestseller, Friday Night Lights, did for high school football.a<br> a USA Today <br> aWriting with the deft, propulsive style of a young Frank Deford, Michael Weinreb has captured both the intellectual insanityaand the curious normalcyaof what itas like to be a teenaged super-genius. [ Game of Kings ] is the Friday Night Lights of high school chess.a<br> aChuck Klosterman, author of Sex, Drugs and Cocoa Puffs and Chuck Klosterman IV


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Michael Weinreb’s previous book Game of Kings won the Quill Award and was named one of the best books of the year by Amazon.com. He has been a regular contributor to The New York Times, Newsday, and ESPN.com, as his work has been anthologized in The Best American Sports Writing collection. He lives in Brooklyn, New York.

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