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- Type
- Novel
- ISBN
- 9780525656784
- Book Title
- Knockout Queen : a Novel
- Item Length
- 9.5 in
- Publisher
- Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
- Publication Year
- 2020
- Format
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- Item Height
- 1.2 in
- Genre
- Fiction
- Topic
- Lgbt / Gay, Literary, Coming of Age
- Item Width
- 6.6 in
- Item Weight
- 21.2 Oz
- Number of Pages
- 288 Pages
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FINALIST FOR THE 2021 PEN/FAULKNER AWARD Full of verve... Revelatory. -- Los Angeles Times A dazzling and darkly comic novel of love, violence, and friendship in the California suburbs Bunny Lampert is the princess of North Shore--beautiful, tall, blond, with a rich real-estate-developer father and a swimming pool in her backyard. Michael--with a ponytail down his back and a septum piercing--lives with his aunt in the cramped stucco cottage next door. When Bunny catches Michael smoking in her yard, he discovers that her life is not as perfect as it seems. At six foot three, Bunny towers over their classmates. Even as she dreams of standing out and competing in the Olympics, she is desperate to fit in, to seem normal, and to get a boyfriend, all while hiding her father's escalating alcoholism. Michael has secrets of his own. At home and at school Michael pretends to be straight, but at night he tries to understand himself by meeting men online for anonymous encounters that both thrill and scare him. When Michael falls in love for the first time, a vicious strain of gossip circulates and a terrible, brutal act becomes the defining feature of both his and Bunny's futures--and of their friendship. With storytelling as intoxicating as it is intelligent, Rufi Thorpe has created a tragic and unflinching portrait of identity, a fascinating examination of our struggles to exist in our bodies, and an excruciatingly beautiful story of two humans aching for connection.
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Publisher
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
ISBN-10
0525656782
ISBN-13
9780525656784
eBay Product ID (ePID)
11038736530
Product Key Features
Book Title
Knockout Queen : a Novel
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Topic
Lgbt / Gay, Literary, Coming of Age
Publication Year
2020
Genre
Fiction
Number of Pages
288 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
9.5 in
Item Height
1.2 in
Item Width
6.6 in
Item Weight
21.2 Oz
Additional Product Features
Lc Classification Number
Ps3620.H787k59 2020
Reviews
"Is it cheesy to say The Knockout Queen knocked me off my feet? I couldn't put it down, and when I had to, I did so only reluctantly, shakily. With unrelenting humor and terrifying intelligence, Rufi Thorpe tells the story of an unlikely high school friendship--the kind of friendship from which you never recover--with intensity and attentiveness. This captivating, generous book is a moving examination on human motivation, darkness, and love--calling attention to the ways we can be deeply different, and yet so much the same." --Rachel Khong, author of Goodbye, Vitamin "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." --Chloe Benjamin, best-selling author of The Immortalists " 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. Michael and Bunny are two of the most unique characters I've ever met, drawn with such precision that it's impossible to leave them behind. This is a hypnotic, beautiful novel, and Rufi Thorpe is an unbelievably unique talent." --Kevin Wilson, best-selling author of The Family Fang " The Knockout Queen is the best book I've read in months! Its one-of-a-kind narrator is funny, vulnerable, brilliant, and brimming with longing, and the story he tells distills the pain and beauty of a life-changing friendship like nothing else I've read before. This book's got guts and heart, and wisdom for days, and I could not put it down. Rufi Thorpe is one of the most exciting novelists working today. This novel is truly exceptional. I loved it." --Edan Lepucki, best-selling author of California and Woman No. 17 "Brilliantly constructed and beautifully told, threaded with heartbreak, honesty and hope, The Knockout Queen is a sublime coming of age story and Rufi Thorpe is a national treasure." --Cynthia Sweeney, best-selling author of The Nest, A LitHub Most Anticipated Book of 2019 "Thorpe takes a familiar plotline--a pair of teen misfits form an unlikely but life-altering friendship--and turns it into an arrestingly original, darkly comic meditation on moral ambiguity.... There are no victims here and no heroes, either. In Thorpe's Technicolor world, everyone is an innocent and everyone is culpable and no one is absolved, and the result is a novel both nauseatingly brutal and radically kind. Brilliantly off-kilter and vibrating with life." -- Kirkus, starred "I loved The Knockout Queen. A blistering, brilliant look at friendship and violence, suburbia and class, all told by one of the most observant, engaging narrators I've read in a very long time. This book is going to stay with me." --Grant Ginder, author of Honestly, We Meant Well and The People We Hate at the Wedding "Rufi Thorpe writes with a savage, clear-eyed calm that is frighteningly good. The Knockout Queen unsettled me in the most delicious way with its complex and satisfying relationships and meditation on violence, beauty, and privilege. Read it!!" --Jade Chang, author of The Wangs vs. the World "Is it cheesy to say The Knockout Queen knocked me off my feet? I couldn't put it down, and when I had to, I did so only reluctantly, shakily. With unrelenting humor and terrifying intelligence, Rufi Thorpe tells the story of an unlikely high school friendship--the kind of friendship from which you never recover--with intensity and attentiveness. This captivating, generous book is a moving examination on human motivation, darkness, and love--calling attention to the ways we can be deeply different, and yet so much the same." --Rachel Khong, author of Goodbye, Vitamin "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." --Chloe Benjamin, best-selling author of The Immortalists " 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. Michael and Bunny are two of the most unique characters I've ever met, drawn with such precision that it's impossible to leave them behind. This is a hypnotic, beautiful novel, and Rufi Thorpe is an unbelievably unique talent." --Kevin Wilson, best-selling author of Nothing to See Here " The Knockout Queen is the best book I've read in months! Its one-of-a-kind narrator is funny, vulnerable, brilliant, and brimming with longing, and the story he tells distills the pain and beauty of a life-changing friendship like nothing else I've read before. This book's got guts and heart, and wisdom for days, and I could not put it down. Rufi Thorpe is one of the most exciting novelists working today. This novel is truly exceptional. I loved it." --Edan Lepucki, best-selling author of California and Woman No. 17 "Brilliantly constructed and beautifully told, threaded with heartbreak, honesty and hope, The Knockout Queen is a sublime coming of age story and Rufi Thorpe is a national treasure." --Cynthia Sweeney, best-selling author of The Nest
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