Stain
Format:Paperback
Publisher:Dalkey Archive Press
Published:19th Oct '95
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In?"The Stain"?Rikki Ducornet tells the story of a young girl named Charlotte, branded with a furry birthmark in the shape of a dancing hare, regarded as the mark of Satan. "Sadistic nuns, scatology, butchered animals, monkish rapists, and Satan" (Kirkus), as well as the village exorcist, inhabit this bawdy tale of perversion, power, possession, and the rape of innocence. Ducornet weaves an intricate design of fantasy and reality, at once surreal, hilarious, and terrifying.
"A bold, Rabelaisian mixture of bawdy and horror, this first novel... is highly recommended." -- Library Journal "A highly disciplined extravaganza... The writing is highly impressive." -- Times Literary Supplement "This is the most brilliant first novel I have read in years... Rikki Ducornet's real talent is for language. She is a minor lord or lady of it, achieving abstruse comic effects by a kind of clowning classicism. The Stain is a very odd, accomplished and memorable novel by any standards." -- Robert Nye, The Guardian
ISBN: 9781564780850
Dimensions: 216mm x 140mm x 17mm
Weight: 294g
192 pages