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Rikki Ducornet

Jade Cabinet

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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 Baconfield the architect will cause a pyramid to collapse, and where a scorned and bloated hunger artist who speaks in tongues will plot a bloody revenge. The fourth element in a tetralogy of novels - Earth (The… Mehr

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  • ISBN: 978-1-56478-173-4
  • EAN: 9781564781734
  • Produktnummer: 9273572
  • Verlag: Ingram Publishers Services
  • Sprache: Englisch
  • Erscheinungsjahr: 1997
  • Seitenangabe: 158 S.

Über den Autor


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.

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