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Books by Rikki Ducornet
  | | Brightfellow by Rikki Ducornet Paperback, 176 Pages, Published 2016 by Coffee House Press ISBN-13: 978-1-56689-440-1, ISBN: 1-56689-440-9 "Praise for Rikki Ducornet:A novelist whose vocabulary sweats with a kind of lyrical heat.” New York TimesDucornetsurrealist, absurdist, pure anarchist at timesis one of our most accomplished writers, adept at seizing on the perfect details and writing with emotion and cool detachment simultaneously. I love her style because it is penetrating and precise but also sensual without being overwrought. You experience a Ducornet novel wit ..." |
 | | Netsuke by Rikki Ducornet Paperback, 128 Pages, Published 2011 by Coffee House Press ISBN-13: 978-1-56689-253-7, ISBN: 1-56689-253-8 "Ruled by his hunger for erotic encounters, a deeply wounded psychoanalyst seduces both patients and strangers with equal heat. Driven to compartmentalize his life, the doctor attempts to order and contain his lovers as he does his collection of rare netsuke, the precious miniature sculptures gifted to him by his wife. This riveting exploration of one psychoanalyst s abuse of power unearths the startling introspection present within even ..." |
 | | Trafik (Paperback) by Rikki Ducornet Paperback, Published 2021 by Coffee House Press, United States ISBN-13: 978-1-56689-606-1, ISBN: 1-56689-606-1 |
 | | The One Marvelous Thing(1st Edition) by Rikki Ducornet, T. Motley, Tom Motley Paperback, 161 Pages, Published 2008 by Dalkey Archive Press ISBN-13: 978-1-56478-519-0, ISBN: 1-56478-519-X "Winner of a 2007 American Academy of Arts and Letters, Rikki Ducornet is beloved as a novelist and essayist, but is known perhaps most of all for her work as a writer of short stories. In the tradition of Italo Calvino, Donald Barthelme, and Angela Carter, Ducornet creates modern-day fables filled with characters as complex and surprising as any in American short fiction. This landmark collection of new stories is generously illustrated ..." |
 | | Entering Fire by Rikki Ducornet Paperback, 168 Pages, Published 2001 by City Lights Publishers ISBN-13: 978-0-87286-355-2, ISBN: 0-87286-355-7 "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 ..." |
 | | The Monstrous and the Marvelous(1st Edition) by Rikki Ducornet Paperback, 124 Pages, Published 2001 by City Lights Publishers ISBN-13: 978-0-87286-354-5, ISBN: 0-87286-354-9 "With the great Renaissance voyages to the New World came the popularity of Wunderkammern, or cabinets of wonders, in which newly discovered monsters and marvels could be displayed. Like such a cabinet, this collection of essays surveys the monstrous and the marvelous - as transmuted in the alembic of Rikki Ducornet's open-hearted vision - in literature, art, and film. For her, excess anomaly, and heterodoxy entice the imagining mind to ..." |
 | | The Deep Zoo(1st Edition) by Rikki Ducornet Paperback, 165 Pages, Published 2015 by Coffee House Press ISBN-13: 978-1-56689-376-3, ISBN: 1-56689-376-3 "Included in Library Journal’s "25 Key Indie Fiction Titles, Fall 2014-Winter 2015"Within the writer's life, words and things acquire power. For Borges it is the tiger and the color red, for Cortázar a pair of amorous lions, and for an early Egyptian scribe the monarch butterfly that metamorphosed into the Key of Life. Ducornet names these powers The Deep Zoo. Her essays take us from the glorious bestiary of Aloys Zötl to Abu Ghraib, fro ..." |
 | | The Fountains of Neptune(2nd Edition) (American Literature (Dalkey Archive)) by Rikki Ducornet Paperback, 220 Pages, Published 2015 by Dalkey Archive Press ISBN-13: 978-1-56478-155-0, ISBN: 1-56478-155-0 ""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 ..." |
 | | The Fan-Maker's Inquisition(1st Edition) A Novel of the Marquis de Sade (Ballantine Reader's Circle) by Rikki Ducornet Paperback, 240 Pages, Published 2000 by Ballantine Books ISBN-13: 978-0-345-44104-1, ISBN: 0-345-44104-4 ""A fan is like the thighs of a woman: it opens and closes." And so begins this lush, historical novel--a mixture of imagination and conceit, passion and suspense. In a tense courtroom during the French Revolution, a young fan-maker, renowned all over Paris for her sensual and graphic objets d'art, is on trial because of her collaboration with the Marquis de Sade. Heads will roll unless the independent fan-maker, erotically cast in the s ..." |
 | | The Complete Butcher's Tales(1st Edition) by Rikki Ducornet, Ducomet Rikki Paperback, 172 Pages, Published 1999 by Dalkey Archive Press ISBN-13: 978-1-56478-229-8, ISBN: 1-56478-229-8 "In the fantastic tradition of Borges, Bruno Schulz, Angela Carter, and H. P. Lovecraft, here are nearly sixty unforgettable stories that ignore the confines of space and time to offer, among other times and places: a cabinet of curiosities in contemporary Cairo, an alvhemical ceiling in 18th-century Naples, the hallucinatory inner worlds of psychotics, anthropomorphic planets, and an Old West ruled by necromancy.This expanded, revised e ..." |
 | | The Jade Cabinet(1st Edition) (American Literature (Dalkey Archive)) by Rikki Ducornet Paperback, 158 Pages, Published 1997 by Dalkey Archive Press ISBN-13: 978-1-56478-173-4, ISBN: 1-56478-173-9 "Made speechless by her eccentric father, the beautiful Etheria is traded for a piece of precious jade. Memory, her sister, tells her story, that of a childhood enlivened by Lewis Carroll and an orangutan named Dr. Johnson and envenomed by the pernicious courtship of Radulph Tubbs, Queen Victoria's own Dragon of Industry. The novel travels from Oxford to Egypt where one million ibis mummies wait to be transformed into fertilizer, where B ..." |
 | | Phosphor in Dreamland(1st Edition) (American Literature (Dalkey Archive)) by Rikki Ducornet Paperback, 192 Pages, Published 1995 by Dalkey Archive Press ISBN-13: 978-1-56478-084-3, ISBN: 1-56478-084-8 "Wildly comic, erotic, and perverse, Rikki Ducornet’s dazzling novel, Phosphor in Dreamland, explores the relationship between power and madness, nature and its exploitation, pornography and art, innocence and depravity. Set on the imaginary Caribbean island of Birdland, the novel takes the form of a series of letters from a current resident to an old friend describing the island’s 17th-century history that brings together the violent I ..." |
 | | The Word "Desire"(1st Edition) by Rikki Ducornet Hardcover, 193 Pages, Published 1997 by Henry Holt & Co ISBN-13: 978-0-8050-5173-5, ISBN: 0-8050-5173-2 "Twelve adventurous narrations exploring the sensualness, explosiveness, and definition of desire, from all over the world, detail how lives were changed by just a glance, touch, or thought, in a bold, sexy, and passionate book. 10,000 first ..." |
 | | Gazelle(Reprint) by Rikki Ducornet Paperback, 208 Pages, Published 2004 by Anchor Mobipocket_Ebook ISBN-13: 978-0-385-72043-4, ISBN: 0-385-72043-2 "As mesmerizing as a tale from the lips of Sheherazade, Gazelle traces the story of Elizabeth, a thirteen-year-old American girl whose adolescent passion is awakened in the exotic climate of 1950s Cairo. While her mother–whose beauty and sexual prowess both frighten and fascinate Elizabeth–moves into a hotel to pursue a string of lovers, her father, a historian, loses himself in a world of chess and toy soldiers. Elizabeth’s imagination, ..." |
 | | Gazelle(1st Edition) by Rikki Ducornet Hardcover, 208 Pages, Published 2003 by Knopf ISBN-13: 978-0-375-41124-3, ISBN: 0-375-41124-0 "A mother’s betrayal, an unexpurgated copy of The Arabian Nights, a dazzling perfume-maker, and the scent of rose attar all serve to awaken a girl of thirteen to erotic life. In Rikki Ducornet’s new novel, Elizabeth, the daughter of a professor of history living in Cairo in the 1950s, tells how she came to be an anatomist of mummies, as she opens up to us the sensations and aromas of ancient times, and explains how the city of Cairo itse ..." |
 | | The Stain(Reprint) (American Literature (Dalkey Archive) by Rikki Ducornet Paperback, 192 Pages, Published 1995 by Dalkey Archive Press ISBN-13: 978-1-56478-085-0, ISBN: 1-56478-085-6 "And clearly He heard, for not long after a young man appeared at the door with small bouquets of bud roses pinned to his shirt and an invitation to the wedding feast of Bebert Prouteau, son of Edma's cousin Nestor. As he explained, he was Bebert's best man, and the wedding feast would take place the following Saturday afternoon at Prouteau's farm. The recently orphaned bride would be moving in directly to live with her in-laws. She ..." |
 | | Complete Butcher's Tales by Rikki Ducornet, Ducomet Rikki Hardcover, 162 Pages, Published 1994 by Dalkey Archive Press ISBN-13: 978-1-56478-043-0, ISBN: 1-56478-043-0 "In the fantastic tradition of Borges, Bruno Schulz, Angela Carter, and H. P. Lovecarft, here are nearly sixty unforgettable stories that ignore the confines of space and time to offer, among other times and places: a cabinet of curiosities in contemporary Cairo, an alchemical ceiling in 18th-century Naples, the hallucinatory inner worlds of psychotics, anthropomorphic planets, and an Old West ruled by necromancy. Thirty of these tales w ..." |
 | | The Fountains of Neptune(1st Edition) by Rikki Ducornet Paperback, 220 Pages, Published 1992 by Dalkey Archive Pr ISBN-13: 978-0-916583-96-5, ISBN: 0-916583-96-1 ""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 ..." |
 | | The Stain - SIGNED by Rikki Ducornet Paperback, 160 Pages, Published 1984 by Chatto & Windus ISBN-13: 978-0-7011-2761-9, ISBN: 0-7011-2761-9 |
 | | Hum(1st Edition) Stories (Fiction Collective Two) by Michelle Richmond, Rikki Ducornet Paperback, 168 Pages, Published 2014 by Fiction Collective 2 ISBN-13: 978-1-57366-178-2, ISBN: 1-57366-178-3 "A new collection of stories by bestselling author Michelle Richmond, Hum presents a cautionary political fable, a celebration of the complexities of marriage, and a meditation on modern-day alienation.Thirteen years after the publication of her first story collection, The Girl in the Fall-Away Dress, New York Times bestselling author Michelle Richmond returns with Hum, a collection of ten stories that examine love, lust, and loyalty fro ..." |
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