Praise for Rikki Ducornet:
"A novelist whose vocabulary sweats with a kind of lyrical heat."
--New York Times
"Ducornet--surrealist, absurdist, pure anarchist at times--is 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 with all of your
senses." --Jeff VanderMeer
"Linguistically explosive. . . . One of the most interesting American
writers around." --The Nation
"Ducornet celebrates the playful and rebellious nature of art, and the
anarchic ability of the imagination to subvert physical limitations."
--Times Literary Supplement
A feral boy comes of age on a campus decadent with starched sheets,
sweating cocktails, and homemade jams. Stub is the cause of that missing
sweater, the pie that disappeared off the cooling rack. Then Stub meets
Billy, who takes him in, and Asthma, who enchants him, and all is found,
then lost. A fragrant, voluptuous novel of imposture, misplaced
affection, and emotional deformity.
An artist and writer, Rikki Ducornet has illustrated books by Robert
Coover, Jorge Luis Borges, Forrest Gander, and Joanna Howard. Her
paintings have been exhibited widely, including, most recently, at the
Pierre Menard Gallery in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and the Salvador
Allende Museum in Santiago, Chile.
