{"product_id":"leonora-carrington-white-rabbits-down-below","title":"Leonora Carrington: White Rabbits\/Down Below","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003ePenguin, 2026, softcover, 128 pages, 12.8 x 19.7 cm\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003ePlayful, sharp and fantastical: a new selection of writing by Leonora Carrington, the last great Surrealist\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn 1940, Leonora Carrington - a twenty-two-year-old British-born Surrealist artist - was persuaded to flee France and the advancing German army for Spain. Already suffering from a psychotic break occasioned by the arrest of her lover by the Nazi authorities, she was soon confined to a mental institution, where she was subjected to sadistic treatment under the guise of medical care. In her memoir, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eDown Below\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, she describes her experiences with an anthropologist's precision and an artist's sense of the fantastic.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis volume also includes a selection of Carrington's best stories from across her lifetime, functioning as companion pieces to her surrealist-inflected non-fiction. They include 'The Debutante', in which a young woman, wishing to avoid a ball in her honour, swaps places with a hyena; 'White Rabbits', which sees a friendly neighbour come by to ask for spare decomposing meat; and 'My Flannel Knickers', in which a woman has sainthood forced upon her.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"ICA Bookstore","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":58477826179456,"sku":null,"price":9.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0012\/4390\/6109\/files\/41wNRyLK37L._SY445_SX342_ML2.jpg?v=1784904033","url":"https:\/\/shop.ica.art\/products\/leonora-carrington-white-rabbits-down-below","provider":"ICA Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}