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The Orchid Stories

by Kenward Elmslie

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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.… (more)
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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.

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Like the orchids that provide their leitmotif, these interwoven stories by Kenward Elmslie are exquisite, exotic, and oneiric, as if they had been written in another world. Although each of THE ORCHID STORIES stands alone, their characters and moods recur frequently, in a swirl of visual echoes and the bewildering clarity of a dream. Even the characters themselves, with their shifting names and genders, have an illusive reality that enhances the pleasure of these tales.
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