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"Subtle, never sentimental, exact and terrifying, Linda Spalding is compelled by what she sees and learns, taking the moral disturbances of popular life as her starting point as she examines the blind violence at the heart of things."
--Susanna Moore, author of "The Big Girls
""The true mystery here is not about a murder but about the unforeseen sisterhood between a writer and a prisoner. It's about the mirrors we hold up to one another and the risks of accepting what we see. I salute Linda Spalding. "Who Named the Knife" was not an easy book to write--which is why it makes for a most compelling read, a story told with honesty and a rare vulnerability."
--James D. Houston, author of "Bird of Another Heaven
""I've read dozens of courtroom dramas and probably hundred of memoirs, but Spalding's remarkable book takes both of those familiar genres, twists them together, and pulls the resulting cord so taut that you cannot possible stop reading until you reach the last, haunting sentence."
--Ayelet Waldman, author of "Love and Other Possible Pursuits
""Spading's strong, elegant prose carries the story along effortlessly... This delicate yet powerful work should find a wide readership."
--"Publishers Weekly"
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"Reminiscent of Truman Capote. . . . Breathtaking." --The Seattle Times"A formidable psychological journey into the dramatically different, yet interconnected lives of... two women. Compact and riveting." --The Oregonian "An honest, creepily fascinating memoir/true-crime story." --The New York Times "Gripping. . . . Spalding is amazing in her ability to seamlessly present a legal paper trail and other research alongside her emotional and honest assessment of herself." --The Miami Herald
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Linda Spalding was born in Kansas and lived in Mexico and Hawaii before immigrating to Toronto in 1982. She is the author of three critically acclaimed novels, Daughters of Captain Cook, The Paper Wife, and (with her daughter Esta) Mere. Her non-fictionm The Follow, was shortlisted for the Trillium Book Award and the Pearson Writers’ Trust Non-Fiction Prize. She has been awarded the Harbourfront Festival Prize for her contribution to the Canadian literary community.
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- PublisherPantheon
- Publication date2007
- ISBN 10 0375424768
- ISBN 13 9780375424762
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages272
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