Authors:Rikki Klieman, Peter Knobler,
Publisher: Harper Paperbacks
Keywords: woman, changed, destiny, driven, true, tales, come, fairy
Number of Pages: 400
Published: 2004-08-01
List price: $14.95
ISBN-10: 0060524022
ISBN-13: 9780060524029

A warrior with a woman’s heart After abandoning her lifelong goal of becoming an actress, a young Rikki Klieman approached a former professor for advice about her future. "How about that First Amendment course?" he asked her. "You did very well." "I loved that course. That was my favorite course in college!" "Why don’t you think about going to law school?" She had never given it a moment’s thought. "Girls don’t go to law school," she told him. "No, but women do." From there, it was just a little more than a decade until a thirty-five-year-old Rikki was named one of Amer

Author: Rikki Ducornet
Publisher: Dalkey Archive Press
Keywords: dalkey, archive, literature, american, cabinet, jade
Number of Pages: 158
Published: 1997-09
List price: $11.50
ISBN-10: 1564781739
ISBN-13: 9781564781734

The language and action are as lush and intricate as William Morris Victorian wallpaper. Memory, the sister of silent Etherea, tells the story of their childhood with an eccentric father who trades Etherea for a piece of jade to Radulph Tubbs, a despicable character who is Queen Victoria’s Dragon of Industry (Dickens would have disliked him intensely). Etherea magically disappears from Tubbs’ grasp after he brutally attacks her, and in Egypt, a hunger artist who speaks in tongues plans a revenge that will surprise everyone.

Author: Rikki Ducornet
Publisher: City Lights Publishers
Keywords: marvelous, monstrous
Number of Pages: 124
Published: 2001-01-01
List price: $12.95
ISBN-10: 0872863549
ISBN-13: 9780872863545

Literary Criticism. With the great Renaissance voyages to the New World came the popularity of Wunderkammern, or cabinets of wonders, in which newly discovered monsters and marvels could be displayed. Like such a cabinet, this collection of essays surveys the monstrous and the marvelous -- as transmuted in the alembic of Rikki Ducornet’s open-hearted vision -- in literature, art and film. For her, excess anomaly, and heterodoxy entice the imagining mind to embrace "otherness," enlarge the world, and regenerate Eden.

Author: Rikki Ducornet
Publisher: Dalkey Archive Press
Keywords: thing, marvelous, one
Number of Pages: 182
Published: 2008-11-17
List price: $13.95
ISBN-10: 156478519X
ISBN-13: 9781564785190

This year Rikki Ducornet is being presented with a lifetime achievement award by the American Academy of Arts and Letters for her beloved work as a novelist and essayist, but 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 th

Author: Rikki Ducornet
Publisher: Anchor
Keywords: gazelle
Number of Pages: 208
Published: 2004-10-12
List price: $13.00
ISBN-10: 0385720432
ISBN-13: 9780385720434

As mesmerizing as a tale from the lips of Sheherazade, Gazelle traces the story of Elizabeth, a thirteen-year-old American girl whose adolescent passion is awakened in the exotic climate of 1950s Cairo. While her mother–whose beauty and sexual prowess both frighten and fascinate Elizabeth–moves into a hotel to pursue a string of lovers, her father, a historian, loses himself in a world of chess and toy soldiers. Elizabeth’s imagination, primed by an explicit edition of The Arabian Nights, leads her to fantasies about her father’s friend, a gentle, older man named Ramses Ragab, a perfum

Author: Rikki Lee Travolta
Publisher: Infinity Publishing.com
Keywords: life, fractured
Number of Pages: 168
Published: 2002-10-15
List price: $15.95
ISBN-10: 0741412675
ISBN-13: 9780741412676

When a promising young actor from a famous entertainment family commits suicide, the faded star that finds him must confront the demons that caused the estrangement of their friendship. Tempering tragedy with dark comedy and dry wit, author Rikki Lee Travolta details a world of has-been and never-were actors struggling for survival in the underbelly beneath the glamorous society of Hollywood’s elite. Actors once considered "Movie Stars" swallow their pride as they slide down the ladder of fame to "Movie of the Week Stars." One-time celebrities who try to leave the tinsel world behind discove

Author: Rikki Ducornet
Publisher: City Lights Publishers
Keywords: fire, entering
Number of Pages: 168
Published: 2001-01-01
List price: $10.95
ISBN-10: 0872863557
ISBN-13: 9780872863552

This startling and brilliantly comic novel tells the stories of two men: a father and his estranged son. Lamprias de Bergerac is a gentle mystic and amateur botanist who spends his middle-aged years in an erotic utopia deep in the Amazonian jungle, collecting specimens of rare orchids and ultimately finding Cucla, the young and free-spirited native woman who has become the love of his life. Meanwhile, his demented son Septimus is raised by his mother in prewar Europe, seething with hatred of the father who abandoned him. He rises to power in Nazi-occupied France, where he goes mad in an obsess