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The stain

Rikki Ducornet

1984191 pagesabout 3–4 hours
1984
first published
  • 1984Grove Press · 191 pages · ENGISBN 9780394542843
  • 1984Chatto & Windus · 191 pages · ENGISBN 9780701127602
  • 1995Dalkey Archive Press · 223 pages · ENGISBN 9781564780850

In The Stain Rikki Ducornet tells the story of a young girl named Charlotte, branded with a furry birthmark in the shape of a dancing hare, regarded as the mark of Satan. "Sadistic nuns, scatology, butchered animals, monkish rapists, and Satan" as well as the village exorcist, inhabit this bawdy tale of perversion, power, possession, and the rape of innocence.

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