THIS IS A BORZOI BOOK PUBLISHED BY ALFRED A. KNOPF
Copyright © 2020 by Rufi Thorpe
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Grateful acknowledgment is made to Alfred A. Knopf for permission to reprint an excerpt from “The Mistake” from Collected Poems by Jack Gilbert, copyright © 2012 by Jack Gilbert. Reprinted by permission of Alfred A. Knopf, an imprint of the Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, a division of Penguin Random House LLC. All rights reserved.
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Names: Thorpe, Rufi, author.
Title: The knockout queen / by Rufi Thorpe.
Description: First edition. | New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2020.
Identifiers: LCCN 2019012529 (print) | LCCN 2019012983 (ebook) | ISBN 9780525656791 (ebook) | ISBN 9780525656784 (hardcover)
Classification: LCC PS3620.H787 (ebook) | LCC PS3620.H787 K59 2020 (print) | DDC 813/.6—dc23
LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2019012529
Ebook ISBN 9780525656791
This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents either are the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, events, or locales is entirely coincidental.
Cover photograph by Robert Jones/Arcangel Images
Cover design by John Gall
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