The Debutante and Other Stories

Author:   Leonora Carrington ,  Sheila Heti ,  Marina Warner ,  Anthony Kerrigan
Publisher:   Silver Press
ISBN:  

9780995716209


Pages:   168
Publication Date:   06 April 2017
Format:   Paperback
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A debutante frees a hyena from the zoo so that it might take her place at her coming-out ball; an artist paints a portrait of a man s dead wife, but finds she has painted herself instead; a woman makes love to a boar underneath a mountain of cats; a chicken is roasted with the brains and livers of thrushes, truffles, crushed sweet almonds, rose conserve and drops of divine liqueur; two noble sisters wonder whether anybody can be a person of quality if they wash away their ghosts with common sense ; a psychoanalyst must decide what to do with the gift of a team of Russian rats trained to operate on humans. In this first complete edition of Leonora Carrington's short stories, written throughout her life from her early years in Surrealist Paris to her late period in Dirty War-era Mexico City, the world is by turns subversive, funny, sly, wise and disarming.

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Author:   Leonora Carrington ,  Sheila Heti ,  Marina Warner ,  Anthony Kerrigan
Publisher:   Silver Press
Imprint:   Silver Press
Dimensions:   Width: 13.00cm , Height: 1.30cm , Length: 19.80cm
ISBN:  

9780995716209


ISBN 10:   099571620
Pages:   168
Publication Date:   06 April 2017
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print   Availability explained
This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us.

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The Surrealist artist and writer Leonora Carrington (1917 2011) was born in Lancashire. At a dinner party in 1937, she met the artist Max Ernst, with whom she went to live in Paris, where she began writing stories. Her best-known written work, the novel The Hearing Trumpet, was published in 1974. In recent decades, her both her stories and artworks have received renewed prominence and appreciation. She died on 25 May 2011 in Mexico City.

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