{"product_id":"white-rabbits-down-below-9780241809617","title":"White Rabbits\/Down Below","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePlayful, sharp and fantatsical: a new selection of writing by Leonora Carrington, the last great Surrealist\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\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, \u003ci\u003eDown Below\u003c\/i\u003e, she describes her experiences with an anthropologist's precision and an artist's sense of the fantastic.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\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\/p\u003e","brand":"Leonora Carrington","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56452839047510,"sku":"9780241809617","price":12.49,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0886\/3206\/6390\/files\/9780241809617.jpg?v=1793656355","url":"https:\/\/www.englishbook.fi\/products\/white-rabbits-down-below-9780241809617","provider":"Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}