Made speechless by her eccentric father, the beautiful Etheria is
traded for a piece of precious jade. Memory, her sister, tells her
story, that of a childhood enlivened by Lewis Carroll and an
orangutan named Dr. Johnson and envenomed by the pernicious
courtship of Radulph Tubbs, Queen Victoria's own Dragon of
Industry. The novel travels from Oxford to Egypt where one million
ibis mummies wait to be transformed into fertilizer, where
Baconfield the architect will cause a pyramid to collapse, and
where a scorned and bloated hunger artist who speaks in tongues
will plot a bloody revenge. The fourth element in a tetralogy of
novels - Earth (The Stain), Fire (Entering Fire), Water (The
Fountains of Neptune) and Air - The Jade Cabinet is both a riveting
novel and a reflection on the nature of memory and desire, language
and power. Following the novel is an afterword, "Waking to Eden, "
in which Ducornet reflects on the sources for her writing and on
the quartet of novels completed by The Jade Cabinet.
General
| Imprint: |
Dalkey Archive Press
|
| Country of origin: |
United States |
| Series: |
American Literature (Dalkey Archive) |
| Release date: |
2024 |
| Authors: |
Rikki Ducornet
|
| Dimensions: |
215 x 139mm (L x W) |
| Format: |
Paperback
|
| Pages: |
158 |
| ISBN-13: |
978-1-62897-511-6 |
| Categories: |
Books >
Fiction >
General
Promotions
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| LSN: |
1-62897-511-3 |
| Barcode: |
9781628975116 |
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