Rikki Ducornet - Best Books
| Author : | Rikki Ducornet |
| Gender : | Female |
| Nationality : | American |
| About : | Rikki Ducornet (; born Erica DeGre, April 19, 1943 in Canton, New York) is an American writer, poet, and artist. She was a recipient of a Lannan Literary Award. |
| Wiki Link : | en.wikipedia.org |
Best Books by Rikki Ducornet
The Stain: A Novel by Rikki Ducornet
In The Stain Rikki Ducornet tells the story of a young girl named Charlotte, branded with a furry birthmark in the shape of a dancing hare, regarded as the mark of Satan. "Sadistic nuns, scatology, butchered animals, monkish rapists, and Satan" (Kirkus), as well as the village exorcist, inhabit this bawdy tale of perversion, power, possession, and the rape of innocence. Ducornet weaves an intricate design of fantasy and reality, at once surreal, hilarious, and terrifying.
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The Jade Cabinet by Rikki Ducornet
Continues the author's "Tetrology of the Elements" with an air-themed novel set in Victorian England
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The Fountains of Neptune by Rikki Ducornet
A lyrical exploration of memory and imagination. "My sleep began in the spring of 1914. I slept through both World Wars and the tainted calm between. It was as if I had been cursed by an evil fairy, pricked by an enchanted spinning wheel; an impenetrable briar had gripped my mind." Thus begins Rikki Ducornet's brilliant lyric novel about Nicolas who, as a result of witnessing his mother's murder, falls into a decades-long coma. Awakened in a seaport town in France, he reconstructs his past through story-telling an
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Entering Fire by Rikki Ducornet
This startling and brilliantly comic novel tells the stories of two men: a father and his estranged son. Lamprias de Bergerac is a gentle mystic and amateur botanist who spends his middle-aged years in an erotic utopia deep in the Amazonian jungle, collecting specimens of rare orchids and ultimately finding Cucla, the young and free-spirited native woman who has become the love of his life. Meanwhile, his demented son Septimus is raised by his mother in prewar Europe, seething with hatred of the father who abandoned him. He rises t
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