Stories of desire, revenge, ecstasy.

Shimmers like an oasis in a desert - Review of Contemporary Fiction

Rikki Ducornet lives in France and the USA, has participated in various post-surrealist groups and published three novels: The Stain, Entering Fire & The Fountains of Neptune (the first two were published in the UK by Chatto & Windus). She has also written six books of poetry and two of children’s fiction. Some of the stories here first appeared in French translation in Phases and Ellebore, most were included in an earlier and larger selection of The Butcher’s Tales published by Aya Press, Toronto, (1980), in an edition of 231 copies.