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Jade Cabinet

Ducornet, Rikki
Heftet / 2024 / Engelsk

Produktdetaljer

ISBN
9781628975116
Publisert
2024-11-28
Utgiver
Vendor
Dalkey Archive Press
Høyde
215 mm
Bredde
139 mm
Aldersnivå
G, 01
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Antall sider
158

Forfatter
Ducornet, Rikki
Afterword by
Ducornet, Rikki

Om bidragsyterne

Rikki Ducornet is a transdisciplinary artist. Her work is animated by an interest in nature, Eros, tyranny and the transcendent capacities of the creative imagination. She is a poet, fiction writer, essayist, and artist, and her fiction has been translated into fifteen languages. Her art has been exhibited internationally, most recently with Amnesty International’s traveling exhibit I Welcome, focused on the refugee crisis. She has received numerous fellowships and awards including an Arts and Letters Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, the Bard College Arts and Letters Award, the Prix Guerlain, a Critics’ Choice Award, and the Lannan Literary Award for Fiction. Her novel The Jade Cabinet was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award.

Jade Cabinet

Ducornet, Rikki
Heftet / 2024 / Engelsk
Ducornet, Rikki
Heftet / 2024 / Engelsk
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“Linguistically explosive. . . . One of the most interesting American writers around.”—<i>The Nation</i>

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 Stain), Fire (Entering Fire), Water (The Fountains of Neptune) and Air - The Jade Cabinet is both a riveting novel and a reflection on the nature of memory and desire, language and power. Following the novel is an afterword, "Waking to Eden, " in which Ducornet reflects on the sources for her writing and on the quartet of novels completed by The Jade Cabinet.
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“Linguistically explosive. . . . One of the most interesting American writers around.”—The Nation
Print and digital publicity targeting the New Yorker, Paris Review, NPR, New York Times, Bookforum, New York Review of Books, London Review of Books, LARB, Literary HubCampaign highlighting a new entry in the Dalkey Archive Essentials seriesNew introduction from recognized writerMarketing highlighting author’s past praise and awardsTargeted bookseller mailingVirtual and in-person events centered on book’s importance, author’s legacyPromotion on publisher’s website and social media; promotion via e-newsletters to booksellers, reviewers
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A re-release of a Dalkey title from 1997Initial edition was a finalist for the National Book Critics' Circle AwardA metafictional fantasy that will appeal to readers of Borges
Memory, wrote Mr. Beattie, presents us with thoughts of what is past accompanied with a persuasion that they were once real. The ambiguity so delighted my father that with my mother’s permission I was named Memory—a curious coincidence considering this memoir which has seized the lion’s part of my relic years. I write from the new century about the old, my purpose to reanimate planets that have long ceased to spin.
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“Linguistically explosive. . . . One of the most interesting American writers around.”—<i>The Nation</i>

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 Stain), Fire (Entering Fire), Water (The Fountains of Neptune) and Air - The Jade Cabinet is both a riveting novel and a reflection on the nature of memory and desire, language and power. Following the novel is an afterword, "Waking to Eden, " in which Ducornet reflects on the sources for her writing and on the quartet of novels completed by The Jade Cabinet.
Les mer
“Linguistically explosive. . . . One of the most interesting American writers around.”—The Nation
Print and digital publicity targeting the New Yorker, Paris Review, NPR, New York Times, Bookforum, New York Review of Books, London Review of Books, LARB, Literary HubCampaign highlighting a new entry in the Dalkey Archive Essentials seriesNew introduction from recognized writerMarketing highlighting author’s past praise and awardsTargeted bookseller mailingVirtual and in-person events centered on book’s importance, author’s legacyPromotion on publisher’s website and social media; promotion via e-newsletters to booksellers, reviewers
Les mer
A re-release of a Dalkey title from 1997Initial edition was a finalist for the National Book Critics' Circle AwardA metafictional fantasy that will appeal to readers of Borges
Memory, wrote Mr. Beattie, presents us with thoughts of what is past accompanied with a persuasion that they were once real. The ambiguity so delighted my father that with my mother’s permission I was named Memory—a curious coincidence considering this memoir which has seized the lion’s part of my relic years. I write from the new century about the old, my purpose to reanimate planets that have long ceased to spin.
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Produktdetaljer

ISBN
9781628975116
Publisert
2024-11-28
Utgiver
Vendor
Dalkey Archive Press
Høyde
215 mm
Bredde
139 mm
Aldersnivå
G, 01
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Antall sider
158

Forfatter
Ducornet, Rikki
Afterword by
Ducornet, Rikki

Om bidragsyterne

Rikki Ducornet is a transdisciplinary artist. Her work is animated by an interest in nature, Eros, tyranny and the transcendent capacities of the creative imagination. She is a poet, fiction writer, essayist, and artist, and her fiction has been translated into fifteen languages. Her art has been exhibited internationally, most recently with Amnesty International’s traveling exhibit I Welcome, focused on the refugee crisis. She has received numerous fellowships and awards including an Arts and Letters Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, the Bard College Arts and Letters Award, the Prix Guerlain, a Critics’ Choice Award, and the Lannan Literary Award for Fiction. Her novel The Jade Cabinet was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award.

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