Rosalie Knecht
Rosalie Knecht grew up in Pennsylvania, attended Oberlin College and the City University of New York, and works in social services in New York City. She translated César Aira's The Seamstress and the Wind while teaching English in a teacher's college in Argentina. Relief Map is her first novel.
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Rosalie Knecht grew up in Pennsylvania, attended Oberlin College and the City University of New York, and works in social services in New York City. She translated César Aira's The Seamstress and the Wind while teaching English in a teacher's college in Argentina. Relief Map is her first novel.
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Who is Vera Kelly? was one of the Summer of Spies books that I have been most anticipating. It's the story of Vera Kelly (yes, really....) told from two different points of view: In one we have Vera posing as a student of Spanish in Argentina in the mid-60s but secretly spying on the political sit...
I slid straight into "Who Is Vera Kelly?", carried along not by the pace of the plot, which is not the usual you-have-twenty-four-hours- to-save-the-world spy thriller pace but by the nuanced but unpretentious prose and by the clear, calm way in which Vera describes herself and her situation. We m...
Relief Map is a good story, but the plot does require a heavy dose of suspended disbelief. The entire plot hinges on events that seem exaggerated: a very small town is completely held hostage by federal agents as they search for a fugitive. No one is allowed in or out. No electricity. No phones. In ...
Technically this is fiction marketed to adults with a young adult protagonist but I think it would have some teen appeal, esp for teens who want to read fiction for adults. It is not marked with the nostalgia and looking back that a lot of FMtAwaYAP has - it is narrated in the present, and although ...
Technically this is fiction marketed to adults with a young adult protagonist but I think it would have some teen appeal, esp for teens who want to read fiction for adults. It is not marked with the nostalgia and looking back that a lot of FMtAwaYAP has - it is narrated in the present, and although ...
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