![]() ![]() " Anomalous - deviating from the normal deviant. ![]() It's startling and refreshing to encounter a writer whose work insists so relentlessly upon the magic of making tales.» - Chicago Tribune «Ducornet writes like a stunned time-traveler, testifying in breathless fragments to exotic ages that have gone or never were. one of the most interesting American writers around.» - The Nation «Rikki Ducornet is linguistically explosive. Motley, whose gritty, fantastical cartooning explores the same post-magical realism that has been the subject of Ducornet’s distinguished career." This landmark collection of new stories is generously illustrated by T. 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. "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. ![]()
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