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LEONORA: A NOVEL INSPIRED BY THE LIFE OF LEONORA CARRINGTON
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| By: |
Elena Poniatowska, Amanda Hopkinson (Trans) |
| Format: |
Electronic book text |
| List price:
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£4.99 |
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| ISBN 10: |
184765827X |
| ISBN 13: |
9781847658272 |
| Publisher: |
PROFILE BOOKS LTD |
| Pub. date: |
5 March, 2015 |
| Synopsis: |
Born in Lancashire as the wealthy heiress to her British father's textiles empire, Leonora Carrington was destined to live the kind of life only known by the moneyed classes. But even from a young age she rebelled against the strict rules of her social class, against her parents and against the hegemony of religion and conservative thought, and broke free to artistic and personal freedom.Today Carrington is recognised as the key female Surrealist painter, and Poniatowska's fiction charms this exceptional character back to life more truthfully than any biography could. For a time Max Ernst's lover in Paris, Carrington rubbed elbows with Salvador Dali, Marcel Duchamp, Joan Miro, Andre Breton and Pablo Picasso. When Ernst fled Paris at the outbreak of the Second World War, Carrington had a breakdown and was locked away in a Spanish asylum before escaping to Mexico, where she would work on the paintings which made her name. In the hands of legendary Mexican novelist Elena Poniatowska, Carrington's life becomes a whirlwind tribute to creative struggle and artistic revolution.Translated by Amanda Hopkinson. |
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UK |
| Imprint: |
Serpent's Tail |
| Prizes: |
Winner of Cervantes Prize 2013 (UK) |
| Returns: |
Non-returnable |
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