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Description
These twelve startlingly original stories about erotic desire are the best opportunity yet for adventurous renders to discover and explore the fiction of Rikki Ducornet, who over the past three decades has created a body of work that is as daring and finely wrought as any writer's. Each of these stories centers on a pivotal erotic moment in the lives of the men and women who narrate them. Desire is awakened by such seemingly inconsequential events as a glance, a dream, a thought, or a chance encounter. Yet in each instance a life is forever changed. Only a few are overtly sexual in content, but each explores the many strange reverberations that occur when desire is present, whether acted upon or kept inside.
From Algeria to Egypt to Italy to France, these stories range across many centuries and cultures, and all demonstrate time and again why Rikki Ducornet has been called "one of the most interesting American writers around" ( Nation).
About the Author
Rikki Ducornet was born in New York and has lived in North Africa, South America, Canada and France. Her work as an illustrator first came to the attention of the Canadian book trade in 1974 with the publication of Susan Musgrave's "Gullband". In 1983, the Porcupine's Quill commissioned Rikki to illustrate an edition of Jorge Luis Borges' "Tlon, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius".Rikki is the author of three short-story collections, seven books of poetry, and seven novels, including "The Fan-Maker's Inquisition" and "The Jade Cabinet". She is also a painter whose work has been exhibited widely. She currently lives in Denver, Colorado.
Book Information
ISBN 9781564783981
Author Rikki Ducornet
Format Paperback
Page Count 193
Imprint Dalkey Archive Press
Publisher Dalkey Archive Press
Weight(grams) 226g
Dimensions(mm) 190mm * 130mm * 16mm
From Algeria to Egypt to Italy to France, these stories range across many centuries and cultures, and all demonstrate time and again why Rikki Ducornet has been called "one of the most interesting American writers around" ( Nation).
About the Author
Rikki Ducornet was born in New York and has lived in North Africa, South America, Canada and France. Her work as an illustrator first came to the attention of the Canadian book trade in 1974 with the publication of Susan Musgrave's "Gullband". In 1983, the Porcupine's Quill commissioned Rikki to illustrate an edition of Jorge Luis Borges' "Tlon, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius".Rikki is the author of three short-story collections, seven books of poetry, and seven novels, including "The Fan-Maker's Inquisition" and "The Jade Cabinet". She is also a painter whose work has been exhibited widely. She currently lives in Denver, Colorado.
Book Information
ISBN 9781564783981
Author Rikki Ducornet
Format Paperback
Page Count 193
Imprint Dalkey Archive Press
Publisher Dalkey Archive Press
Weight(grams) 226g
Dimensions(mm) 190mm * 130mm * 16mm
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