Carrington, Leonora

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Hearing Trumpet, The
Leonora Carrington
Manufacturer: Exact Change
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Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 1878972197
Release Date: 2004-02-02

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Leonora Carrington, the distinguished British-born Surrealist painter who now makes her home in Mexico City, is also a writer of extraordinary imagination and charm. Exact Change launched a program of reprinting her fiction with what is perhaps her best loved book. The Hearing Trumpet is the story of 92-year-old Marian Leatherby, who is given the gift of a hearing trumpet only to discover that what her family is saying is that she is to be committed to an institution. But this is an institution where the buildings are shaped like birthday cakes and igloos, where the Winking Abbess and the Queen Bee reign, and where the gateway to the underworld is open. It is also the scene of a mysterious murder. Occult twin to Alice in Wonderland, The Hearing Trumpet is a classic of fantastic literature that has been translated and celebrated throughout the world.

Leonora Carrington: The Mexican Years : 1943-1985

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Leonora Carrington: The Mexican Years : 1943-1985
Leonora Carrington
Manufacturer: Mexican Museum/San Francisco
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ASIN: 1880508001

Leonora Carrington: Surrealism, Alchemy And Art

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Leonora Carrington: Surrealism, Alchemy And Art
Susan L. Aberth , and Leonora Carrington
Manufacturer: Lund Humphries Publishers
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Lilus Kikus and Other Stories
Elena Poniatowska , and Elizabeth Coonrod Martinez
Manufacturer: University of New Mexico Press
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ASIN: 0826335829

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Elena Poniatowska is recognized today as one of Mexico's greatest writers. Lilus Kikus, published in 1954, was her first book. However, it was labeled a children's book because it had a young girl as protagonist, it included illustrations, and the author was an unknown woman. Lilus Kikus has not received the critical attention or a translation into English it deserved, until now. Accompanying Lilus Kikus in this first American edition are four of Poniatowska's short stories with female protagonists, only one of which has been previously published in English.

Poniatowska is admired today as a feminist, but in 1954, when Lilus Kikus appeared, feminism didn't have broad appeal. Twenty-first-century readers will be fascinated by the way Poniatowska uses her child protagonist to point out the flaws in adult society. Each of the drawings by the great surrealist Leonora Carrington that accompany the chapters in Lilus Kikus expresses a subjective, interiorized vision of the child character's contemplations on life.

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