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Through the Looking-Glass
Innes, Charlotte | June 6, 1994 issue

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This article focuses on five books "The Complete Butcher's Tales," by Rikki Ducornet; "The Stain"; "Entering Fire"; "The Fountains of Neptune," and "The Jade Cabinet," by Dalkey Archive. Part of Ducornet's achievement is that each of her books can be read separately, but they also mirror and enrich one another, offering different aspects of the same overarching, age-old theme-the capacity to do both good and evil-not as morality plays but as explorations of what it is to be human. In "The Jade Cabinet," the critic discovered words as delicate as flowers, wound lightly about with humor, founded in a deep understanding of human motivation.

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COMPLETE Butcher's Tales, The (Book); ENTERING Fire (Book); FOUNTAINS of Neptune, The (Book); JADE Cabinet, The (Book); DUCORNET, Rikki; ARCHIVE, Dalkey; MOTIVATION (Psychology)
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