One Marvelous Thing
Rikki Ducornet
(Author)
T. Motley
(Illustrator)
Description
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 by T. Motley, whose gritty, fantastical cartooning explores the same post-magical realism that has been the subject of Ducornet's distinguished career.Product Details
Price
$13.95
$12.97
Publisher
Dalkey Archive Press
Publish Date
November 01, 2008
Pages
161
Dimensions
5.4 X 8.1 X 0.5 inches | 0.5 pounds
Language
English
Type
Paperback
EAN/UPC
9781564785190
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About the Author
The author of eight novels, three collections of short fiction, a book of essays and five books of poetry, Rikki Ducornet has twice been honored by the Lannan Foundation. She has received the Bard College Arts and Letters award and, in 2008, an Academy Award in Literature. Her work is widely published abroad.
Reviews
"Rikki Ducornet is linguistically explosive ... one of the most interesting American writers around."
"In the bizarre world of Rikki Ducornet's fiction, laughter and terror hold hands in an uneasy truce and almost anything can happen." -- Richard Burgin
"It is high time that the U.S. discovered one of its foremost women novelists and accorded her the recognition that the ebullient quality of her imagination deserves."
"[Ducornet] writers like a stunned time-traveler, testifying in breathless fragments to exotic ages that have gone or never were . . . . It's startling and refreshing to encounter a writer whose work insists so relentlessly upon the magic of making tales." -- Robert Chatain
"In the bizarre world of Rikki Ducornet's fiction, laughter and terror hold hands in an uneasy truce and almost anything can happen." -- Richard Burgin
"It is high time that the U.S. discovered one of its foremost women novelists and accorded her the recognition that the ebullient quality of her imagination deserves."
"[Ducornet] writers like a stunned time-traveler, testifying in breathless fragments to exotic ages that have gone or never were . . . . It's startling and refreshing to encounter a writer whose work insists so relentlessly upon the magic of making tales." -- Robert Chatain
an irresistible sequence of bizarre, quirky and zany stories' -Robert Allen Papinchak, Seattle Times
