The Knockout Queen by Rufi Thorpe came on my radar when it was a Book of the Month selection last year. I wasn't sure what it was about, but the cover intrigued me, so I added it to my list. (I have no shame in saying that sometimes an aesthetically pleasing cover influences my reading choices.) I will say, this one was a pleasant surprise. I liked it much more than I was expecting. "Fearless, tender, and savagely alive, The Knockout Queen is unlike anything you'll read this year. Rufi Thorpe's third novel is about unruly thoughts and unruly bodies, about violence and love, about doing the wrong thing for the right reasons and the drag of human being. You won't be able to look away. You might even recognize yourself.”. "Fearless, tender, and savagely alive, The Knockout Queen is unlike anything you'll read this year. Rufi Thorpe's third novel is about unruly thoughts and unruly bodies, about violence and love, about doing the wrong thing for the right reasons and the drag of human being. You won't be able to look away. You might even recognize yourself.”/5().
"The Knockout Queen [is] full of verve and sketched in colors as vibrant as a Tilt-A-Whirl David Hockney landscape. Thorpe inverts the more common tale of an impoverished sufferer who is momentarily saved or mourned by a richer, more stable friend. The result is revelatory." (Hillary Kelly, Los Angeles Times). This is a book review of the new novel by Rufi Thorpe, The Knockout Queen a #bildungsroman that I chose for my May #bookofthemonth and absolutely loved!!!. The Knockout Queen. Rufi Thorpe. Review by Stephenie Harrison; Rufi Thorpe comes back swinging with her best novel yet, a darkly comedic and tragic tale of a friendship between two outsiders. Share this Article: Share on facebook. Share on twitter. Share on pinterest. Share on email.
“The Knockout Queen is an intense, unflinching examination of friendship, the threads that connect us in such strange ways. Rufi Thorpe navigates this difficult terrain thanks to a masterful use of detail and a wonderfully dark sense of humor that lands at just the right moment. The Knockout Queen. Rufi Thorpe has made a name for herself as a heavyweight in the literary world with her incisive, morally complex coming-of-age stories. Her debut novel, The Girls From Corona del Mar, was long-listed for several major literary prizes in , and her follow-up, Dear Fang, With Love, was published to wide acclaim two years later. “The Knockout Queen is an intense, unflinching examination of friendship, the threads that connect.
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