{"product_id":"brightfellow-rikki-ducornet-9781566894401","title":"Brightfellow","description":"\u003cb\u003ePraise for Rikki Ducornet: \u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"A novelist whose vocabulary sweats with a kind of lyrical heat.\" \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003e--New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"Ducornet--surrealist, absurdist, pure anarchist at times--is one of our most accomplished writers, adept at seizing on the perfect details and writing with emotion and cool detachment simultaneously. I love her style because it is penetrating and precise but also sensual without being overwrought. You experience a Ducornet novel with all of your senses.\" \u003cb\u003e--Jeff VanderMeer\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"Linguistically explosive. . . . One of the most interesting American writers around.\" \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003e--The Nation\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"Ducornet celebrates the playful and rebellious nature of art, and the anarchic ability of the imagination to subvert physical limitations.\" \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003e--Times Literary Supplement\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA feral boy comes of age on a campus decadent with starched sheets, sweating cocktails, and homemade jams. Stub is the cause of that missing sweater, the pie that disappeared off the cooling rack. Then Stub meets Billy, who takes him in, and Asthma, who enchants him, and all is found, then lost. A fragrant, voluptuous novel of imposture, misplaced affection, and emotional deformity.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAn artist and writer, \u003cb\u003eRikki Ducornet \u003c\/b\u003ehas illustrated books by Robert Coover, Jorge Luis Borges, Forrest Gander, and Joanna Howard. Her paintings have been exhibited widely, including, most recently, at the Pierre Menard Gallery in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and the Salvador Allende Museum in Santiago, Chile.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Rikki Ducornet\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1566894409\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781566894401\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Coffee House Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 07\/05\/2016\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 176\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.35lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 7.40h x 5.00w x 0.50d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e 05\/01\/2016\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e 05\/02\/2016\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eBooklist\u003c\/i\u003e 06\/01\/2016 pg. 38\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eLibrary Journal\u003c\/i\u003e 07\/01\/2016 pg. 76\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rikki Ducornet","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43985155817727,"sku":"9781566894401","price":15.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_9def4348-e337-4a4f-8cc5-6a3b6b646f32.jpg?v=1683275879","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/brightfellow-rikki-ducornet-9781566894401","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}