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The Deep Zoo : essays / Rikki Ducornet.
Van Pelt Library PS3554.U279 A6 2015
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Ducornet, Rikki, 1943- author.
- Standardized Title:
- Essays. Selections
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- American literature--20th century.
- American literature.
- American literature--21st century.
- Genre:
- Essays.
- Physical Description:
- 116 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Minneapolis : Coffee House Press, 2015.
- Summary:
- "Praise for Rikki Ducornet:A novelist whose vocabulary sweats with a kind of lyrical heat."-The New York Times"Linguistically explosive. one of the most interesting American writers around."-The NationThe Deep Zoo is a record of Ducornet's reading of the world, a gathering of alchemies where the unknown has become visible through the medium of art, be they Borges's tigers and Cortazar's lions, desire, mystery, or the grotesque.Rikki Ducornet has been a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award, honored twice by the Lannan Foundation, and the recipient of an Academy Award in Literature"-- Provided by publisher.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references.
- ISBN:
- 9781566893763
- 1566893763
- OCLC:
- 878953308
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