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. "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. "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().
Title: The knockout queen / by Rufi Thorpe. Description: First edition. | New York: Alfred A. Knopf, It was easy for her and my sister to share a queen-size futon in her tiny studio apartment, but where would they put me, with my adolescent male body? Play. PRH Audio. The Knockout Queen by Rufi Thorpe, read by Michael Crouch. 1 year ago1 year ago. 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. The knockout queen. by Rufi Thorpe ‧ RELEASE DATE: Ap. Thorpe (Dear Fang, With Love, ) 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.
The Knockout Queen by Rufi Thorpe is a sentimental story of adolescent suffering that truly will knock you out. Michael, a closeted teen who’s been dealt a tough lot in life, and his best friend, Bunny, a giantess from a young age whose father basically runs their small town, are just trying to make it through their youth on the outside. Rufi Thorpe. HOME. THE KNOCKOUT QUEEN. THE GIRLS FROM CORONA DEL MAR. DEAR FANG, WITH LOVE. CONTACT + BIO. ESSAYS. More. Buy here. Essays. Bio. Finalist for the But beyond this, Bunny wrestles with some serious demons. Author Rufi Thorpe wrote an ironic story: The girl who appears enviable has little to truly envy, and the boy who should be broken isn't that broken after all. The Knockout Queen is narrated from Michael’s point-of-view. Many stories would be just as successful told from a different point-of-view; the author could flip a coin and begin.
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