Ebook {Epub PDF} The Word Exchange by Alena Graedon

Alena Graedon was born in Durham, North Carolina, and is a graduate of Brown University and Columbia’s MFA program. She has worked at Knopf and PEN and taught at Columbia. The Word Exchange, her first novel, was completed with the help of fellowships at several artist colonies. It has been translated into eight languages/5(). Word Exchange by Alena Graedon. Reads. Word by Word: The Secret Life of Dictionaries by Kory Stamper. Reads. Ink Exchange by Melissa Marr. Reads. The Rhinemann Exchange: A Novel by Robert Ludlum. Reads. The Malta Exchange by Steve Berry. Reads. The Rhinemann Exchange. A fiendishly clever dystopian novel for the digital age, The Word Exchange is a fresh, stylized and decidedly original debut about the dangers of technology and the power of the printed word. In the not so distant future, the forecasted "death of print" has become a reality. Bookstores, libraries, newspapers and magazines are a thing of the past, as we spend our time glued to handheld devices 3/5(42).

Alena Graedon is a writer based in Brooklyn, and author of the novel The Word Exchange. The Word Exchange ranks as my favorite novel of The lexicon Graedon employs had me scrolling through my dictionary, snatching up new words like a bee gathering nectar. The mystery twists through the tunnels and caves under Manhattan while unfurling histories of the English language and celebrating the creation of the dictionary. The love. Alena Graedon. Alena Graedon's debut novel, The Word Exchange, was a New York Times Editors' Choice and Paperback Row pick, and selected as a best novel of by Kirkus. It has been translated into eight languages. The New York Times describes the work as "a nervy, nerdy dystopic thriller set in New York City in the very near future.

Alena Graedon was born in Durham, North Carolina, and is a graduate of Brown University and Columbia’s MFA program. She has worked at Knopf and PEN and taught at Columbia. The Word Exchange, her first novel, was completed with the help of fellowships at several artist colonies. It has been translated into eight languages. Alena Graedon is a writer based in Brooklyn, and author of the novel The Word Exchange. In Alena Graedon’s first novel, “The Word Exchange,” a nervy, nerdy dystopic thriller set in New York City in the very near future, the risk of “suddenly becoming stupid” is not notional.