The Milk of Dreams

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Price
$18.95  $17.62
Publisher
New York Review of Books
Publish Date
Pages
56
Dimensions
5.7 X 8.6 X 0.4 inches | 0.5 pounds
Language
English
Type
Hardcover
EAN/UPC
9781681370941

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About the Author
Leonora Carrington (1917-2011) was born in Lancashire, England, to an industrialist father and an Irish mother. She was raised on fantastical folk tales told to her by her Irish nanny at her family's estate, Crookhey Hall. Carrington would be expelled from two convent schools before enrolling in art school in Florence. She fled Europe during the Second World War and settled in Mexico, where she married the photographer Imre Weisz and had two sons. Carrington spent the rest of her life in Mexico City, moving in a circle of like-minded artists that included Remedios Varo and Alejandro Jodorowsky. Among Carrington's published works is a novel, The Hearing Trumpet (1976), and two collections of short stories. NYRB Classics publishes her memoir, Down Below, and her Complete Stories is published by Dorothy, a Publishing Project in the United States and by Silver Press in the United Kingdom.
Reviews
"It is a book that opens the imagination. . . . [In The Milk of Dreams] there are two narratives: one is written and the other is illustrated, the two converse, one with the other, and have a strange dialogue to be discovered. This kind of story is entertaining in a way that is increasingly hard to find." --Gabriel Weisz, son of Leonora Carrington

"Carrington is best known for her surrealist paintings and sculptures, but her idiosyncratic literary legacy is equally deserving of attention. . . their vivid imagery, irreverence, and surreal transformations are as provocative as they were at the time of their writing." --Tobias Carroll, The Paris Review

"These pages have traveled in my hands for more than twenty reverent years. At last they arrive. . . . " --Alejandro Jodorowsky