"Rikki Ducornet's new novel is a delicious, spellbinding masterpiece. The exercise of her extravagant imaginative powers is rigorous, the richness of her writing concentrated to trenchant effect, and her enchanting narrative conducted with great intensity and seriousness. Phosphor's bewildering, bewildered career deserves a constellation in the firmament of literary heroes."–Harry Mathews"Rikki Ducornet can create an unsettling, dreamlike beauty out of any subject. In the heady mix of her fiction, everything becomes potently suggestive, resonant, fascinating. She exposes life's harshest truths with a mesmeric delicacy and holds her readers spellbound." –Joanna Scott
"Rikki Ducornet is imagination's emissary to this mundane world." –Stephen Sparks, Point Reyes Books
"Ducornet is a novelist of ambition and scope." –The New York Times
"Linguistically explosive. . . . One of the most interesting American writers around." –The Nation