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The One Marvelous Thing
Ducornet, Rikki. Illus: Motley, T.
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Description for The One Marvelous Thing
Hardback. Illustrator(s): Motley, T. Series: American Literature Series. Num Pages: 182 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 149 x 210 x 14. Weight in Grams: 226.
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. 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. This landmark collection of new stories is generously illustrated by T. Motley, whose gritty, fantastical cartooning explores the same post-magical realism that has been the subject of Ducornet’s distinguished career.
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. 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. This landmark collection of new stories is generously illustrated by T. Motley, whose gritty, fantastical cartooning explores the same post-magical realism that has been the subject of Ducornet’s distinguished career.
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Dalkey Archive Press United States
Number of pages
182
Condition
New
Series
American Literature Series
Number of Pages
161
Place of Publication
Normal, IL, United States
ISBN
9781564785190
SKU
V9781564785190
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About Ducornet, Rikki. Illus: Motley, T.
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 ... Read more
Reviews for The One Marvelous Thing
an irresistible sequence of bizarre, quirky and zany stories' -Robert Allen Papinchak, Seattle Times