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Who is Vera Kelly? / Rosalie Knecht.
Van Pelt Library PS3611.N43 W48 2018
Available
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Knecht, Rosalie, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Women spies--Fiction.
- Women spies.
- Radicals.
- Argentina--Buenos Aires.
- Radicals--Argentina--Buenos Aires--Fiction.
- Young women--Fiction.
- United States. Central Intelligence Agency--Fiction.
- Buenos Aires (Argentina)--History--1955-1983--Fiction.
- Buenos Aires (Argentina)--History--Coup d'état, 1966--Fiction.
- Buenos Aires (Argentina)--Fiction.
- Buenos Aires (Argentina).
- Local Subjects:
- Young women--Fiction.
- United States. Central Intelligence Agency--Fiction.
- Buenos Aires (Argentina)--History--1955-1983--Fiction.
- Buenos Aires (Argentina)--History--Coup d'état, 1966--Fiction.
- Genre:
- Fiction.
- Adventure fiction.
- Spy stories.
- Historical fiction.
- Novels.
- Action and adventure fiction.
- Spy fiction.
- Book clubs (Discussion groups)
- Handbooks and manuals.
- Physical Description:
- 266 pages ; 22 cm
- Edition:
- First U.S. edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Portland, Oregon : Tin House Books, 2018.
- Summary:
- "New York City, 1962. Vera Kelly is struggling to make rent and blend into the underground gay scene in Greenwich Village. She's working night shifts at a radio station when her quick wits, sharp tongue, and technical skills get her noticed by a recruiter for the CIA. Next thing she knows she's in Argentina, tasked with wiretapping a congressman and infiltrating a group of student activists in Buenos Aires. As Vera becomes more and more enmeshed with the young radicals, the fragile local government begins to split at the seams. When a betrayal leaves her stranded in the wake of a coup, Vera learns the Cold War makes for strange and unexpected bedfellows, and she's forced to take extreme measures to save herself. An exhilarating page turner and perceptive coming-of-age story, Who Is Vera Kelly? is a novel that introduces an original, wry and whip-smart female spy for the twenty-first century"-- Provided by publisher.
- Notes:
- Includes reading group questions.
- Local Notes:
- Athenaeum copy: Miller Fund bookplate.
- ISBN:
- 9781947793019
- 1947793012
- OCLC:
- 1005684288
- Publisher Number:
- 99977413808
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