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 middleaged years in an erotic utopia deep in the Amazonian jungle, collecting specimens of rare orchids and ultimately finding Cucla, the young and freespirited 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 Nazioccupied 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."Linguistically explosive and socially relevant, [her] works are solid evidence that Rikki Ducornet is one of the most interesting writers around ... We are living in an age of intellectual and emotional starvation that is largely without spirituality, cynical about social change and disconnected from the natural world. We need writers to look at these difficult issues in a sophisticated manner. Ducornet has done this. She is the mirror of our innermost selves. And she gives us back to ourselvesdespairing , hopeful, active, contemplative, fractured but surviving, playful, even happy sometimes, and always whole ......

Binding: Paperback;164 pages; Publisher: City Lights Publishers; Classification: FA; Weight: 346 g; Dimensions: 203 x 152 x 12

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