Copyright © 1995 by Rikki Ducornet
First edition 1995
First Dalkey Archive Essentials edition, 2023
Published by arrangement with Agence littéraire Astier-Pécher
All rights reserved
Portions of this novel first appeared in Black Ice, Fiction International, Iowa Review, New Observations, Parnassus, Postmodern Culture, and Sulphur.
The author wishes to extend her thanks to Allan Guttmann and the Copeland Colloquium Sponsors at Amherst College, Jeanie Kim and Patrick Lannan of the Lannan Foundation, Giovanna Covi and the University of Trento, and John O’Brien and Steven Moore of Dalkey Archive Press.
Ebook: 978-1-62897-470-6
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Ducornet, Rikki, 1943-Phosphor in dreamland / Rikki Ducornet.—1st ed. p. cm.
I. Title.
PS3554.U279P48 1995 813’.54—dc20 95-17888
ISBN 1-56478-084-8
Partially funded by grants from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Illinois Arts Council.
Cover design by Justin Childress
Interior design by Anuj Mathur
Dalkey Archive Press
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