Who is Vera Kelly?
(2018)

Fiction

Book

Call Numbers:
FICTION/KNECHT,R

Availability

Locations Call Number Status
Fiction FICTION/KNECHT,R Available

Details

PUBLISHED
Portland, Oregon : Tin House Books, 2018
EDITION
First US edition
DESCRIPTION

266 pages ; 22 cm

ISBN/ISSN
9781947793019, 1947793012 :
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES

"Book club questions inside"--Page 4 of cover

"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"--