"Praise for Rikki Ducornet:A novelist whose vocabulary sweats with a kind of lyrical heat."--The New York Times"Linguistically explosive. one of the most interesting American writers around."-The NationThe Deep Zoo is a record of Ducornet's reading of the world, a gathering of a…
"Praise for Rikki Ducornet:A novelist whose vocabulary sweats with a kind of lyrical heat."--The New York Times"Linguistically explosive. one of the most interesting American writers around."-The NationThe Deep Zoo is a record of Ducornet's reading of the world, a gathering of a…
"Praise for Rikki Ducornet:A novelist whose vocabulary sweats with a kind of lyrical heat."--The New York Times"Linguistically explosive. one of the most interesting American writers around."-The NationThe Deep Zoo is a record of Ducornet's reading of the world, a gathering of a…
"Praise for Rikki Ducornet: A novelist whose vocabulary sweats with a kind of lyrical heat."--The New York Times. "Linguistically explosive...one of the most interesting American writers around."-The Nation. The Deep Zoo is a record of Ducornet's reading of the world, a gatherin…
<Div>Ducornet's essays explore eros, violence, dreams, fairy tales, and art as alchemy—the Deep Zoo at the core of humanity.<BR></div>
"In The History of the Future, McPherson explores America in all its beauty and strangeness. He is funny and searching-a joy to read."--Elizabeth Kolbert Praise for Edward McPherson: "Mr. McPherson is an intrepid traveler. a charming and literate companion, and he approaches his…
"In The History of the Future, McPherson explores America in all its beauty and strangeness. He is funny and searching-a joy to read."--Elizabeth Kolbert Praise for Edward McPherson: "Mr. McPherson is an intrepid traveler. a charming and literate companion, and he approaches his…
A collection of long essays centered on American places where the past is erupting into the present in unexpected ways.
"In these eleven stories, Tan explores the idea that every relationship between two people is actually a relationship between three people: each relationship encompasses and relies upon an interstitial presence--another person, a former self, a future lover. Within this loose th…
These eleven short fictions evoke the microcosmic worlds every human relationship contains. A woman iscaptivated by the stories her boyfriend tells about his exes. A faltering artist goes on a date with a marriedcouple. Twin brothers work out their rivalry via the girl next door…
"In these eleven stories, Tan explores the idea that every relationship between two people is actually a relationship between three people: each relationship encompasses and relies upon an interstitial presence--another person, a former self, a future lover. Within this loose th…
