Rikki Ducornet : Brightfellow




Between The Covers : Conversations with Writers show

Summary: <a href="https://i1.wp.com/www.davidnaimon.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/Screen-Shot-2016-07-20-at-7.06.30-AM.png"></a>A feral boy comes of age on a campus decadent with starched sheets, sweating cocktails, &amp; homemade jams. Stub is the cause of that missing sweater, the pie that disappeared off the cooling rack. Then Stub meets Billy, who takes him in, &amp; Asthma, who enchants him, &amp; all is found, then lost. A fragrant, voluptuous novel of imposture, misplaced affection, &amp; the many ways we are both visible &amp; invisible to one another. The author of eight previous novels as well as collections of short stories, essays, &amp; poems, Rikki Ducornet has been a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award, is a two-time honoree of the Lannan Foundation, &amp; is the recipient of an Academy Award in Literature.<br>