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The Debutante and Other Stories
Leonora Carrington
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Description for The Debutante and Other Stories
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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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Silver Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
Number of Pages
168
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780995716209
SKU
V9780995716209
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 4 to 8 working days
Ref
99-26
About Leonora Carrington
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 ... Read more
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