Tetralogy of Elements Series by Rikki Ducornet

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  • The Stain (Tetralogy of Elements #1)
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    The Stain (Tetralogy of Elements #1)

    Rikki Ducornet

    Rated: 3.88 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings · published 1984

    In "The Stain" Rikki Ducornet tells the story of a young girl named Charlotte, branded with a furry birthmark in the shape of a dancing hare, regarded as the mark of Satan. "Sadistic nuns, scatology, butchered animals, monkish rapists, and Satan" (Kirkus), as well as the village exorcist, inhabit this bawdy tale of perversion, power, possession, and the rape of innocence. Ducornet weaves an intricate design of fantasy and reality, at once surreal, hilarious, and terrifying.

  • Entering Fire (Tetralogy of Elements #2)
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    Entering Fire (Tetralogy of Elements #2)

    Rikki Ducornet

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 3 ratings · published 1986

    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... more

  • The Fountains of Neptune (Tetralogy of Elements #3)
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    The Fountains of Neptune (Tetralogy of Elements #3)

    Rikki Ducornet

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 4 ratings · published 1989

    "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... more

  • The Jade Cabinet (Tetralogy of Elements #4)
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    The Jade Cabinet (Tetralogy of Elements #4)

    Rikki Ducornet

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings · published 1993

    Made speechless by her eccentric father, the beautiful Etheria is traded for a piece of precious jade. Memory, her sister, tells her story, that of a childhood enlivened by Lewis Carroll and an orangutan named Dr. Johnson and envenomed by the pernicious courtship of Radulph Tubbs, Queen Victoria's own Dragon of Industry... more

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