Save the feet for later
Edmund Gordon: Leonora Carrington, 2 November 2017
The Surreal Life of Leonora Carrington
by Joanna Moorhead.
Virago, 304 pp., £20, April 2017,978 0 349 00877 6 Show More
by Joanna Moorhead.
Virago, 304 pp., £20, April 2017,
‘The Debutante’ and Other Stories
by Leonora Carrington.
Silver Press, 153 pp., £9.99, April 2017,978 0 9957162 0 9 Show More
by Leonora Carrington.
Silver Press, 153 pp., £9.99, April 2017,
Leonora Carrington and the International Avant-Garde
edited by Jonathan Eburne and Catriona McAra.
Manchester, 275 pp., £75, January 2017,978 1 78499 436 5 Show More
edited by Jonathan Eburne and Catriona McAra.
Manchester, 275 pp., £75, January 2017,
“... What Leonora Carrington remembered most clearly about being a debutante in 1935 was her tiara ‘biting’ into her skull. In her short story ‘The Debutante’, the teenage narrator hates balls, ‘especially when they are given in my honour’ (Carrington’s parents threw one for her at the Ritz), so she engages a hyena to take her place: the animal is about the right size, and she reckons nobody will make it out properly in the candlelight ... ”
