| Author: | Rikki Ducornet | ISBN: | 9781564789907 |
| Publisher: | Dalkey Archive Press | Publication: | March 1, 1993 |
| Imprint: | Dalkey Archive Press | Language: | English |
| Author: | Rikki Ducornet |
| ISBN: | 9781564789907 |
| Publisher: | Dalkey Archive Press |
| Publication: | March 1, 1993 |
| Imprint: | Dalkey Archive Press |
| Language: | English |
"My sleep began in the spring of 1914. I slept through both World Wars and the tainted calm between. It was as if I had been cursed by an evil fairy, pricked by an enchanted spinning wheel; an impenetrable briar had gripped my mind." Thus begins Rikki Ducornet's brilliant lyric novel about Nicolas who, as a result of witnessing his mother's murder, falls into a decades-long coma. Awakened in a seaport town in France, he reconstructs his past through story-telling and myth, resulting in an astonishing exploration of memory and imagination.
"My sleep began in the spring of 1914. I slept through both World Wars and the tainted calm between. It was as if I had been cursed by an evil fairy, pricked by an enchanted spinning wheel; an impenetrable briar had gripped my mind." Thus begins Rikki Ducornet's brilliant lyric novel about Nicolas who, as a result of witnessing his mother's murder, falls into a decades-long coma. Awakened in a seaport town in France, he reconstructs his past through story-telling and myth, resulting in an astonishing exploration of memory and imagination.
