<TitleType>01</TitleType> <TitleText>Entering Fire</TitleText>

City Lights Books onix@onixsuite.com 20130218 eng

GCDS-9780872863552 03 01 City Lights Books 01 GCOI 87286100537470 02 0872863557 03 9780872863552 15 9780872863552 BC <TitleType>01</TitleType> <TitleText>Entering Fire</TitleText> 1 A01 Ducornet, Rikki Rikki Ducornet Rikki Ducornet has a gift for combining the horrific with the hilarious, the realistic with the fantastic. Through a wildly inventive narrative, Entering Fire scrutinizes the sources of fascist mentality in nations and, potentially, in all humans. 01 eng 01 This startling and brilliantly comic novel tells the stories of two men: a father and his estranged son. Lamprias de Bergerac is a gentle mystic and amateur botanist who spends his middle-aged years in an erotic utopia deep in the Amazonian jungle, collecting specimens of rare orchids and ultimately finding Cucla, the young and free-spirited native woman who has become the love of his life. Meanwhile, his demented son Septimus is raised by his mother in prewar Europe, seething with hatred of the father who abandoned him. He rises to power in Nazi-occupied France, where he goes mad in an obsessive pursuit of racial purity. Rikki Ducornet has a gift for combining the horrific with the hilarious, the realistic with the fantastic. Through a wildly inventive narrative, Entering Fire scrutinizes the sources of fascist mentality in nations and, potentially, in all humans. 02 This startling and brilliantly comic novel tells the stories of two men: a father and his estranged son. Lamprias de Bergerac is a gentle mystic and amateur botanist who spends his middle-aged years in an erotic utopia deep in the Amazonian jungle... 08 "Entering Fire displays a cheerfully gruesome audacity and an imagination both lively and bizarre." The New York Times 08 "Entering Fire is about the metaphoric and potentially evil properties of language; it is about origins and motives of myth-making. This is a novel of ideas (often strange ideas) that is sustained throughout by brilliant writing." London Sunday Times 08 "Far from being an escapist fantasy, Entering Fire takes on some of the biggest issues of the 20th century... For sheer power, inventiveness and verbal density, (it) is the best read I've come across for a long time." The Observer 08 "A drastically beautiful comic writer who stitches sentences together as if Proust had gone into partnership with Lenny Bruce." City Limits 08 "...imaginative and unbridled fantasy." Le Monde 08 "...an imagination and a style as captivating as it is devastating." Lire 08 "Unlike anything you've ever read before." L'Express 04 02 72 01 http://www.citylights.com/resources/titles/87286100537470/images/87286100537470L.gif 07 02 72 01 http://www.citylights.com/resources/titles/87286100537470/images/87286100537470S.gif http://www.citylights.com/book/?GCOI=87286100537470 City Lights Publishers 01 City Lights Publishers 19870901 08 16 oz City Lights Books 01 WORLD 20 19870901 01 02 10.95 USD