Rikki Ducornet, Author . Knopf $21 (208p) ISBN 978-0-375-41124-3
Sepia-toned like the tea-steeped ivory chess pieces commissioned at its start, this evocative if overripe brief novel by Ducornet (The Fan-Maker's Inquisition,
etc.) tells the story of a young American girl's awakening one summer in 1950s...
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Rikki Ducornet, Author Dalkey Archive Press $12.95 (165p) ISBN 978-1-56478-084-3
Although Ducornet's Tetralogy of Elements ended in 1993 with the NBCC nominee The Jade Cabinet, her wondrous new novel might represent the most unpredictable property of all: light. In letters to a friend, the lonely narrator describes the...
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Rikki Ducornet, Author Dalkey Archive Press $19.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-916583-96-5
In this allegorical novel--part absurdist fairy tale, part Mad Hatter's tea party--poet and novelist ( Entering Fire ) Ducornet renders a vexatiously baffling account of a mentally troubled childhood. Confined to an exotic spa, middle-aged Nicholas...
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Rikki Ducornet, Author Henry Holt & Company $22 (208p) ISBN 978-0-8050-5173-5
In a few pages, each of Ducornet's dozen stories creates a universe. Readers familiar with her work (NBCC finalist for The Jade Cabinet, etc.) will recognize the theme--desire, its frustration, its perversion, its fulfillment. Not every story is...
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Rikki Ducornet, Author Random House (UK) $0 (0p) ISBN 978-0-7011-2950-7
In this parody of French fascism, Lamprias de Bergerac, a hedonistic Frenchman who becomes rich and famous for creating popular orchids, marries a cool, aristocratic woman who, as he puts it, has ""thick, black eyebrows, close set, like centipedes...
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Rikki Ducornet, Author Dalkey Archive Press $19.95 (158p) ISBN 978-1-56478-021-8
This novel, representing Air, is a numinous finale to Ducornet's Tetralogy of Elements, which also includes The Stain (Earth), Entering Fire (Fire) and The Fountains of Neptune (Water). Born into an eccentric household in Victorian Oxford, Etheria...
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Rikki Ducornet, Author Dalkey Archive Press $9.95 (0p) ISBN 978-1-56478-031-7
Air is the subject of this last volume of Ducornet's Tetralogy of the Elements, set in Victorian England. (Apr.)
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Rikki Ducornet, Coffee House, $14.95 trade paper (128p) ISBN 978-1-56689-253-7
Sex and psychosis are indistinguishable in this killer new novel from Ducornet (The Fan-Maker's Inquisition). An unnamed psychoanalyst narrator has a habit of having sex with his patients. At the risk of losing his practice, he descends into a co-dep
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Rikki Ducornet. Coffee House (Consortium, dist.), $15.95 trade paper (160p) ISBN 978-1-56689-440-1
Ducornet has made an estimable career mining often bizarre, horrifying, or otherwise unpredictable territory. This novel is perhaps her most accessible book, which she achieves without sacrificing the trademark fluidity of her language or her...
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Rikki Ducornet, Author, T. Motley, Illustrator , illus. by T. Motley. Dalkey Archive $13.95 (161p) ISBN 978-1-56478-519-0
Illustrated with Motley's inky, scruffy black-and-white sketches, many of these 29 shorts from poet and novelist Ducornet aim to push readers' buttons, such as the exclamatory narrative by the feral young creature in “Wild Child,̶
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Rikki Ducornet, Author, Ducomet Rikki, Author Dalkey Archive Press $19.95 (162p) ISBN 978-1-56478-043-0
Lewis Carroll's The Hunting of the Snark provides the epigraph; his Jabberwocky donates the title of one story, ``Brillig''; and something of his creepy whimsy--mixed with a pinch of Chekhov and a hint of Rod Serling, among others--informs all 54 of
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Rikki Ducornet, Author, Ducornet, Author Henry Holt & Company $22 (224p) ISBN 978-0-8050-5926-7
The Marquis de Sade, notorious Frenchman and sexual libertine, makes for a sensual, irreverent and politically illuminating subject in Ducornet's (Phosphor in Dreamland) lushly imagined seventh novel. This sumptuous tale is equal parts testimonial,...
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Rikki Ducournet. Coffee House, $15.95 trade paper (128p) ISBN 978-1-56689-606-1
Ducournet (Brightfellow) dazzles with this whirlwind jaunt through a far-future universe, told in jargon-studded prose that turns gonzo science into gleeful lyricism. Mineral miner Quiver and her robot companion, Mic, “a deeply thoughtful gizmo”...
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