The Complete Butcher's Tales

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In the fantastic tradition of Borges, Bruno Schulz, Angela Carter, and H.P. Lovecraft, here are nearly sixty unforgettable stories that ignore the confines of space and time to offer, among other times and places: a cabinet of curiosities in contemporary Cairo, an alchemical ceiling in 18th century Naples, the hallucinatory inner worlds of psychotics, anthropomorphic planets, and an Old West ruled by necromancy.

This expanded, revised edition collects the complete short stories of one of the most imaginative writers of our time.

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ISBN-10 1-56478-229-8

ISBN-13 9781564782298

Publication Date May 1994

Nb of pages 172

Dimensions 6 x 9 in.

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Reading Rikki Ducornet

Brian Evenson

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Press Reviews

Library Journal

Garishly vivid, splendid little nightmares.

The Nation

Linguistically explosive and socially relevant, these works are solid evidence that Rikki Ducornet is one of the most interesting American writers around.

Washington Post

In the bizarre world of Rikki Ducornet's fiction, laughter and terror hold hands in an uneasy truce and almost anything can happen.

Chicago Tribune

Ducornet writes like a stunned time-traveler, testifying in breathless fragments to exotic ages that have gone or never were . . . It's startling and refreshing to encounter a writer whose work insists so relentlessly on the magic of making tales.

London Review of Books

Ducornet has no time for realism, preferring instead an incredibly pungent, heady and violent brew of words . . . In which each sensation seems to be multiplied threefold and each character is ten times larger than life.

Publishers Weekly

A brilliant, refreshingly varied collection . . . told in prose of such beauty that one can't help silently mouthing the words.

Los Angeles Times

Ducornet forces the language to speak with the voice of the subconscious.

Harvard Review

While her ensemble of unearthly creatures leaps through rings of fire and enchantment, Ducornet's prose probes and flits with reasoned madness . . . Incantatory.

Toronto Globe and Mail

The Butcher's Tales is a collection of contes surrealistes which does everything Andre Breton and Co. said writing should and could do—release you into a world of surprise, abracadabra, poetry, humor, mad love and fulfilled desire.

Booklist

An astonishing accomplishment.

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