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Weinreb, Michael The Kings of New York : A Year among the Geeks, Oddballs, and Genuises Who Make up America's Top High School Chess Team
Gotham Books 2007 1592402615 / 9781592402618 First Edition Hard Cover Near-Fine Near-Fine
Near-fine condition. Stated First Edition. Number line: 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1. NO remainder marks or price clippings. Dustcover is clean, shows light wear (NO Tears). Tight spine, clean pages. 289 pages. NO writing, marks or tears inside book. Pages show slight tanning. From Publishers Weekly Starred Review. Weinreb, whose work has appeared three times in The Best American Sports Writing, offers the story of a year spent with Brooklyn's Edward R. Murrow High School chess team as it strives for a national championship. Weinreb makes several choices that work well for a year-in-the-life account. For one, he eschews unnecessary speculation about the teen chess prodigies' psychology, a strategy that taken with his deft reporting of how they view themselves and one another renders them more accessible, more natural and consequently more interesting. Weinreb also expands his arena by investigating the cultural milieu of the modern chess world. He describes what it takes to be a successful high-level chess player, the difficulties women have in this world, the very nature of the game and the phenomenon of the chess prodigy, using the experience of Josh Waitzkin, who has now retired from competitive chess and was the subject of the movie Searching for Bobby Fischer. All this is supported by well-chosen detail, intelligence and terrific writing. Weinreb clearly develops an affection for the eclectic members of the team, and because of the skill he brings to his project, so will his readers. B&w illus. (Mar. 1) Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. Review The Kings of New York is about chess in the same way that Darcy Frey's The Last Shot was about basketball. Michael Weinreb's real subjects are the nature of talent, the onset of adolescence, and the kingdom of Brooklyn. This is a wonderful book. -- Mark Kriegel, author of Pistol: The Life of Pete Maravich and Namath: A Biography The Kings of New York isn't so much a book about high school chess as it is an unforgettable journey into the blessing and curse of adolescent genius. With a narrative rich in voice-a gathering of intoxicating characters-Michael Weinreb has delivered nothing short of a generational classic. This is a stunning book. You won't soon forget it. -- Adrian Wojnarowski, author of The Miracle of St. Anthony Michael Weinreb has done a heroic job doing something once thought impossible-making an eminently readable topic out of chess. Part Word Freak, part Season on the Brink, The Kings of New York is a gripping inside look at an endearingly quirky subculture. -- L. Jon Wertheim, author of Transition Game and Venus Envy 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. The Kings of New York is the Friday Night Lights of high school chess. -- Chuck Klosterman, author of Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs and Chuck Klosterman IV
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