The Debutante and Other Stories
The Debutante and Other Stories
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23 March, 2017
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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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| Type | Book |
|---|---|
| ISBN13 | 9780995716209 |
| ISBN10 | 099571620X |
| Number Of Pages | 168 |
| Item Weight | 214 g |
| Publisher / Reseller | Silver Press |
| Format | paperback |
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Author's Bio
Leonora Carrington was a British-born Surrealist painter and writer, described as one of the leading lights of the Surrealist movement. Born in Lancashire in 1917 to a strict Catholic family she first came into contact with surrealism through her lover, Surrealist painter Max Ernst, before moving to Mexico in 1942.