The Skeleton's Holiday (Mini Modern Classics)

Author(s): Leonora Carrington

Classics

Ring for your maid, and when she comes in we'll pounce upon her and tear off her face. I'll wear her face tonight instead of mine.'

These dreamlike, carnivalesque fables by one of the leading lights of the Surrealist movement are masterpieces of invention and grand-guignol humour.

General Information

  • : 9780241339169
  • : penguin
  • : penguin
  • : 0.04
  • : February 2018
  • : 161mm X 111mm
  • : United Kingdom
  • : February 2018
  • : books

Other Specifications

  • : Leonora Carrington
  • : Paperback
  • : 1
  • : English
  • : 823.914
  • : 64
  • : FC

More About The Product

Leonora Carrington is a British born Surrealist painter and writer now living in Mexico city who has been described, alongside people such as Pablo Picasso and Joan Miro, as one of the leading lights of the Surrealist movement. Born in Lancashire in 1917 to a strict Catholic family she first came into contact with surrealism through her lover, Surrealist painter Max Ernst, before moving to Mexico in 1942. The Hearing Trumpet, her most famous piece of writing, was first published in France in 1974.