Leonora Carrington was an English-born Mexican Surrealist artist and writer known for her haunting, autobiographical, somewhat inscrutable paintings that incorporate images of sorcery, metamorphosis, alchemy, and the occult. Carrington was raised in a wealthy Roman Catholic family on a large estate
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The book is anchored by the homes, landscapes, and countries that defined Carrington, richly illustrated with her paintings and archival material. Moorhead’s writing is at its most gorgeously sensorial when she visits these locations for herself.