Kris Kneen’s new novel of rich strangeness and blurred boundaries, and set on a wild island, references both Shakespeare’s The Tempest and Stravinsky’s Rite of Spring – which gives it its name.
Rite of Spring adds to Kneen’s warmly received body of work, which includes fiction and memoir. Kneen writes narratives that accommodate both the literary and the erotic – and their new novel continues this legacy. Its narrative structure is clear and persuasive, its language is lyrical, and its sex scenes are convincing but never gratuitous.
