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"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." "The novel travels from Oxford to Egypt where one million ibis mummies wait to be transformed into fertilizer, where Baconfield the architect will cause a pyramid to collapse, and where a scorned and bloated hunger artist who speaks in tongues will plot a bloody revenge." "The fourth element in a tetralogy of novels - Earth (The Stain), Fire (Entering Fire), Water (The Fountains of Neptune) and Air - The Jade Cabinet is both a riveting novel and a reflection on the nature of memory and desire, language and power. Following the novel is an afterword, "Waking to Eden," in which Ducornet reflects on the sources for her writing and on the quartet of novels completed by The Jade Cabinet."--Jacket.  

Genre/Form: Fiction
Additional Physical Format: Online version:
Ducornet, Rikki, 1943-
Jade cabinet.
Normal, IL : Dalkey Archive Press, 1994, ©1993
(OCoLC)607825788
Named Person: Lewis Carroll; Lewis Carroll
Material Type: Fiction
Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Rikki Ducornet
ISBN: 1564781739 9781564781734 1564780317 9781564780317 156478021X 9781564780218
OCLC Number: 53040378
Description: 158 pages ; 22 cm
Responsibility: by Rikki Ducornet ; afterword by the author.