Leonora: A novel inspired by the life of Leonora Carrington

Name: Leonora: A novel inspired by the life of Leonora Carrington
Brand: Profile Books Ltd
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By Elena Poniatowska

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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 Dal?Marcel Duchamp, Joan Mir?, Andr?reton 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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Binding:: Paperback
Number of Pages:: 464
Release Date:: 2015-03-05
Publication Date:: 2015-03-05
Publisher:: Profile Books Ltd
Languages:: Original: English
ISBN10:: 1846688558
ISBN13:: 9781846688553
Weight:: 496 g
Height:: 21.7 cm
Width:: 13.7 cm
Thickness:: 3.7 cm

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