Leonora Carrington, Author Dutton Books $17.95 (216p) ISBN 978-0-525-24648-0
An introduction by Marina Warner sets these surrealistic stories by Max Ernst's lover (and herself a noted surrealist painter) in helpful context. Carrington was 19 in 1936 when she met Ernst, in London for an exhibition. Returning with him to...
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Leonora Carrington, Author Dutton Books $17.95 (197p) ISBN 978-0-525-24651-0
This collection of Carrington's fiction, the most comprehensive so far, includes a novella and 18 short stories written between the late 1930s and the early '70s in French, Spanish and English. All these tales take place in fantastic, eerie...
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Leonora Carrington. New York Review Books, $14 trade paper (96p) ISBN 978-1-68137-060-6
First published in 1943, surrealist painter and novelist Carrington’s brief and unflinchingly honest first-person account traces the author’s descent into (and recovery from) clinical insanity. The narrative is set in motion in 1940 when Carrington’s
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Leonora Carrington. Dorothy, a Publishing Project (SPD, dist.), $16 trade paper (232p) ISBN 978-0-9973666-4-8
The surrealist painter and writer Carrington (The Hearing Trumpet) was rescued from a Spanish mental institution by her nanny and spirited away in a submarine—and her fiction is stranger than the facts of her life. A menagerie of eccentric humans,...
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