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Phosphor in Dreamland

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Availability:In StockContributor:Rikki DucornetSeries:Dalkey Archive EssentialsPublish date:2023-06-27Pages:192
Language:EnglishPublisher:Dalkey Archive PressISBN-13:9781628974430ISBN-10:1628974435UPC:9781628974430Book Category:FictionBook Subcategory:Magical Realism, Epistolary, World LiteratureBook Topic:Caribbean & West IndiesSize:8.50 x 5.50 x 0.60 inchesWeight:0.5997Product ID:SCTZ68MB3K
Wildly comic, erotic, and perverse, Rikki Ducornet's dazzling novel, Phosphor in Dreamland, explores the relationship between power and madness, nature and its exploitation, pornography and art, innocence and depravity. Set on the imaginary Caribbean island of Birdland, the novel takes the form of a series of letters from a current resident to an old friend describing the island's seventeenth-century history that brings together the violent Inquisition, the thoughtless extinction of the island's exotic fauna, and the amorous story of the deformed artist-philosopher-inventor Phosphor and his impassioned, obsessional love for the beautiful Extravaganza. The Jade Cabinet, Ducornet's novel that was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award, was described by one reviewer as "Jane Austen meets Angela Carter via Lewis Carroll." Phosphor in Dreamland can be described as Jonathan Swift meets Angela Carter via Jorge Luis Borges. This is Ducornet at her magical best.
Language:EnglishPublisher:Dalkey Archive PressISBN-13:9781628974430ISBN-10:1628974435UPC:9781628974430Book Category:FictionBook Subcategory:Magical Realism, Epistolary, World LiteratureBook Topic:Caribbean & West IndiesSize:8.50 x 5.50 x 0.60 inchesWeight:0.5997Product ID:SCTZ68MB3K
Publisher: Dalkey Archive Press

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