The Word "Desire"
Format:Paperback
Publisher:Dalkey Archive Press
Published:21st Apr '05
Currently unavailable, and unfortunately no date known when it will be back
From Algeria to Egypt to Italy to France, these stories range across many centuries and cultures, and all demonstrate time and again why Rikki Ducornet has been called "one of the most interesting American writers around" ( Nation).
These twelve startlingly original stories about erotic desire are the best opportunity yet for adventurous renders to discover and explore the fiction of Rikki Ducornet, who over the past three decades has created a body of work that is as daring and finely wrought as any writer's. Each of these stories centers on a pivotal erotic moment in the lives of the men and women who narrate them. Desire is awakened by such seemingly inconsequential events as a glance, a dream, a thought, or a chance encounter. Yet in each instance a life is forever changed. Only a few are overtly sexual in content, but each explores the many strange reverberations that occur when desire is present, whether acted upon or kept inside.
ISBN: 9781564783981
Dimensions: 190mm x 130mm x 16mm
Weight: 226g
193 pages