{"product_id":"the-milk-of-dreams-hardcover","title":"The Milk of Dreams - Hardcover","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eLeonora Carrington\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eIn English for the first time, a wild and darkly funny book that combines Surrealist painter Leonora Carringon's fantastical writing and illustrations for children\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003eThe maverick surrealist Leonora Carrington was an extraordinary painter and storyteller who loved to make up stories and draw pictures for her children. She lived much of her life in Mexico, and her sons remember sitting in a big room whose walls were covered with images of wondrous creatures, towering mountains, and ferocious vegetation while she told fabulous and funny tales. That room was later whitewashed, but some of its wonders were preserved in the little notebook that Carrington called \u003ci\u003eThe Milk of Dreams\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e John, who has wings for ears, Humbert the Beautiful, an insufferable kid who befriends a crocodile and grows more insufferable yet, and the awesome Janzamajoria are all to be encountered in \u003ci\u003eThe Milk of Dreams\u003c\/i\u003e, a book that is as unlikely, outrageous, and dreamy as dreams themselves.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eLeonora Carrington\u003c\/b\u003e (1917-2011) was born in Lancashire, England, to an industrialist father and an Irish mother. She was raised on fantastical folk tales told to her by her Irish nanny at her family's estate, Crookhey Hall. Carrington would be expelled from two convent schools before enrolling in art school in Florence. She fled Europe during the Second World War and settled in Mexico, where she married the photographer Imre Weisz and had two sons. Carrington spent the rest of her life in Mexico City, moving in a circle of like-minded artists that included Remedios Varo and Alejandro Jodorowsky. Among Carrington's published works is a novel, \u003ci\u003eThe Hearing Trumpet \u003c\/i\u003e(1976), and two collections of short stories. NYRB Classics publishes her memoir, \u003ci\u003eDown Below\u003c\/i\u003e, and her \u003ci\u003eComplete Stories \u003c\/i\u003eis published by Dorothy, a Publishing Project in the United States and by Silver Press in the United Kingdom.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 56\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.4 x 8.6 x 5.7 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eIllustrated:\u003c\/strong\u003e Yes\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e May 16, 2017\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51770373243168,"sku":"9781681370941","price":18.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/2f56407ca3f7ff9c506ff785ab6389b2.webp?v=1780370382","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/the-milk-of-dreams-hardcover","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}