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Rikki Ducornet

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Sadistic nuns, scatology, butchered animals, monk-ish rapists, and Satan: first-novelist Ducornet tosses these familiar dark-gothic elements around in a stylish but dankly heavy-handed tale - mildly surreal, faintly black-comic - of 1880s rural France. The girl-victim here is Charlotte, born with a hare-shaped, furry birthmark on her face as her mother dies in grisly labor. Charlotte is raised by her sweetly addled uncle and her puritanical great-aunt, who never forgets the evil Lust of Charlotte's dead mother (who ran off to mate with a drunken, carnal hunter) - and who calls on the local village Exorcist to remove the stain somehow. (For di… Mehr

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  • ISBN: 978-1-56478-085-0
  • EAN: 9781564780850
  • Produktnummer: 9492397
  • Verlag: Dalkey Archive Pr
  • Sprache: Englisch
  • Erscheinungsjahr: 1995
  • Seitenangabe: 192 S.
  • Masse: H21.7 cm x B14.0 cm x D1.8 cm 295 g
  • Auflage: Dalkey Archive
  • Gewicht: 295
  • Sonstiges: Ab 22 J.

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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