num_pages: 193
description: These twelve startlingly original stories about erotic desire are the best opportunity yet for adventurous renders to discover and explore the fiction of Rikki Ducornet, who over the past three decades has created a body of work that is as daring and finely wrought as any writer's. Each of these stories centers on a pivotal erotic moment in the lives of the men and women who narrate them. Desire is awakened by such seemingly inconsequential events as a glance, a dream, a thought, or a chance encounter. Yet in each instance a life is forever changed. Only a few are overtly sexual in content, but each explores the many strange reverberations that occur when desire is present, whether acted upon or kept inside.
language: English
title: The Word "Desire"
titlecomplete: The Word "Desire" (Lannan Selection)
genres: Literature, American, Female Authors, Fiction, Short Stories, Contemporary
ratings_count: 127
publisher: Dalkey Archive Press