THE DEBUTANTE& OTHER STORIES
LEONORA CARRINGTON
$40.00
Published by Silver Press.
168 pages.
Paperback.
A debutante frees a hyena from the zoo so that it might take her place at her coming-out ball; an artist paints a portrait of a man’s dead wife, but finds she has painted herself instead; a psychoanalyst must decide what to do with the gift of a team of Russian rats trained to operate on humans. In this first complete edition of Leonora Carrington’s short stories, the world is by turns subversive, funny, sly, wise and disarming.
168 pages.
Paperback.
A debutante frees a hyena from the zoo so that it might take her place at her coming-out ball; an artist paints a portrait of a man’s dead wife, but finds she has painted herself instead; a psychoanalyst must decide what to do with the gift of a team of Russian rats trained to operate on humans. In this first complete edition of Leonora Carrington’s short stories, the world is by turns subversive, funny, sly, wise and disarming.