The Complete Stories of Leonora Carrington by Leonora Carrington

The Complete Stories of Leonora Carrington by Leonora Carrington

"Complete Stories, a collection of Carrington's published and unpublished short stories--many newly translated from their original French and Spanish--is a terrific introduction to her bizarre, dreamlike worlds." --Carmen Maria Machado, NPR

Surrealist writer and painter Leonora Carrington (1917-2011) was a master of the macabre, of gorgeous tableaus, biting satire, roguish comedy, and brilliant, effortless flights of the imagination. Nowhere are these qualities more ingeniously brought together than in the works of short fiction she wrote throughout her life.

Published to coincide with the centennial of her birth, The Complete Stories of Leonora Carrington collects for the first time all of her stories, including several never before seen in print. With a startling range of styles, subjects, and even languages (several of the stories are translated from French or Spanish), The Complete Stories captures the genius and irrepressible spirit of an amazing artist's life.

Leonora Carrington (1917-2011) was born to an industrialist father and an Irish mother in Lancashire, England. At her family's home, Crookhey Hall, she was nurtured on wonderful folk tales recounted to her by her Irish nanny. Before enrolling in art school in Florence, Carrington was expelled from two convent schools. She fled Europe after WWII and moved in Mexico, where she married and had two kids with photographer Imre Weisz. Carrington lived the rest of her life in Mexico City, where she was surrounded by like-minded artists such as Remedios Varo and Alejandro Jodorowsky.

A book, The Hearing Trumpet (1976), and two collections of short tales are among Carrington's published works. Her memoir, Down Below, is published by NYRB Classics, and her collection of short stories, Complete Tales, is published by Dorothy, a Publishing Project in the United States and Silver Press in the United Kingdom.

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ISBN 13	9780997366648
ISBN 10	0997366648
Title	The Complete Stories of Leonora Carrington
Author	Leonora Carrington
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Dorothy a Publishing Project
Year published	2017-04-28
Number of pages	232
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