Down Below (NYRB Classics) by Leonora Carrington - April 2017

NYRB Classics. Used - Like New. May have light shelf wear and/or a remainder mark. Complete. Clean pages.

NYRB Classics, 2017. Soft Cover. Very Good. VG with clean, unmarked interior.

NYRB Classics, 2017-04-18. Paperback. Like New.

NYRB Classics. New. BRAND NEW, GIFT QUALITY! NOT OVERSTOCKS OR MARKED UP REMAINDERS! DIRECT FROM THE PUBLISHER!

NYRB Classics, 2017-04-18. Paperback. New.

pb. Good+. All pages and cover are intact. Possible minor highlighting and marginalia. Ships from an indie bookstore in NYC.

New York Review of Books, 2017-04-18. Illustrated. paperback. Used: Good.

New York Review of Books, 2017-04-18. Illustrated. paperback. Used:Good.

pb. New. Brand New. Ships from an indie bookstore in NYC.

New York: New York Review Books, 2017. xxxvii, 69 pages, illustrations, portrait; 21 cm. Tight, clean copy. "In 1937 Leonora Carrington--later to become one of the twentieth century's great painters of the weird, the alarming, and the wild--was a nineteen-year-old art student in London, beautiful and unapologetically rebellious. At a dinner party, she met the artist Max Ernst. The two fell in love and soon departed to live and paint together in a farmhouse in Provence. In 1940, the invading German army arrested Ernst and sent him to a concentration camp. Carrington suffered a psychotic break. She wept for hours. Her stomach became "the mirror of the earth"--of all worlds in a hostile universe--and she tried to purify the evil by compulsively vomiting. As the Germans neared the south of France, a friend persuaded Carrington to flee to Spain. Facing the approach "of robots, of thoughtless, fleshless beings," she packed a suitcase that bore on a brass plate the word… Read More