Praised by John Ashbery as evoking a rococo world of banality and nightmare which . . . comes in the end to seem like paradise. The Orchid Stories presents us with interwoven stories as delicate and exquisite as the flowers for which they re named, conveying an almost otherworldly beauty. Images, moods, and characters recur with the clarity of a dream: Phil, the little boy gigolo; Mummers and Mummy, who adopt him; the alluring Diana Vienna; and the eccentric Dr. Schmidlapp, who plans to capture the rare Native Innards orchid precisely at the stroke of midnight.
- ISBN10 1564785726
- ISBN13 9781564785725
- Publish Date 29 February 2012
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 27 January 2021
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Dalkey Archive Press
- Format Paperback
- Pages 256
- Language English