The Invisible Painting: My Memoir of Leonora Carrington
By: Gabriel Weisz Carrington
3.89
Format: 152 pages, Hardcover
Since her death in 2011, the memory of the widely renowned Surrealist artist and writer Leonora Car…
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1. Down Below
By: Leonora Carrington , Debra Taub
3.84
Format: 56 pages, Paperback
Black Swan Press 1983 Surrealist Editions Paperback. read more
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"I think she was mistaken when she said I was torturing myself. I think that she interpreted me fragmentarily, which is worse than not to interpret at all."-Leonora Carrington, Down Below
"I am afraid I am going to drift into fiction, truthful but incomplete, for lack of some details which I cannot conjure up today and which might have enlightened us. This morning, the idea of the egg …"-Leonora Carrington, Down Below
2. Les Chants de Maldoror
By: Comte de Lautréamont , Guy Wernham
4.15
Format: 342 pages, Paperback
The macabre but beautiful work Les Chants de Maldoror has achieved a considerable reputation as one… read more
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"...the police, that shield of civilization..."-Comte de Lautréamont, Les Chants de Maldoror
"I received life like a wound and I have forbidden suicide to heal the scar."-Comte de Lautréamont, Les Chants de Maldoror
"Qui donc, sur la tête, me donne des coups de barre de fer, comme un marteau frappant l'enclume?"-Comte de Lautréamont, Les Chants de Maldoror
"I will state in a few lines that Maldoror was good during his first year, when he lived happily; that is a fact. Then he realised he was born malicious: an extraordinary fate! ... Who would have thou…"-Comte de Lautréamont, Les Chants de Maldoror
3. Les Fleurs du Mal
By: Charles Baudelaire , Richard Howard
4.20
Format: 365 pages, Paperback
Charles Baudelaire's 1857 masterwork was scandalous in its day for its portrayals of sex, same-sex … read more
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"L'orage rajeunit les fleurs"-Charles Baudelaire, Les Fleurs du Mal
"I am the vampire at my own veins."-Charles Baudelaire, Les Fleurs du Mal
"Beauty, you walk on corpses, mocking them;"-Charles Baudelaire, Les Fleurs du Mal
"My heart is lost; the beasts have eaten it."-Charles Baudelaire, Les Fleurs du Mal
4. The Complete Stories of Leonora Carrington
By: Leonora Carrington , Kathryn Davis , Kathrine Talbot
4.16
Format: 1342 pages, Paperback
Surrealist writer and painter Leonora Carrington (1917-2011) was a master of the macabre, of gorgeo… read more
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5. The Buried Giant
By: Kazuo Ishiguro
3.58
Format: 317 pages, Hardcover
"You've long set your heart against it, Axl, I know. But it's time now to think on it anew. There's… read more
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"Are you still there, Axl?"-Kazuo Ishiguro, The Buried Giant
"The Giant, once buried, now stirs."-Kazuo Ishiguro, The Buried Giant
"The Giant, once well buried, now stirs."-Kazuo Ishiguro, The Buried Giant
"A wound that healed slowly, but heal it did."-Kazuo Ishiguro, The Buried Giant
6. The Lost Lunar Baedeker: Poems of Mina Loy
By: Mina Loy , Roger L. Conover
3.77
Format: 341 pages, Paperback
Mina Loy has been perplexingly absent from British literary history. In America she has been posthu… read more
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7. Dear Life: Stories
By: Alice Munro
2.50
Format: 216 pages, Hardcover
Suffused with Munro's clarity of vision and her unparalleled gift for storytelling, these tales abo… read more
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8. The Hundred Headless Woman
By: André Breton , Max Ernst , None
4.02
Format: 424 pages,
Max Ernst's early-twentieth-century collage-novel calls upon the reader to interpret captions and s… read more
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- art
9. The Man in the Wooden Hat (Old Filth, #2)
By: Jane Gardam
4.10
Format: 233 pages, Paperback
The New York Times called Sir Edward Feathers one of the most memorable characters in modern litera… read more
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10. Knots
By: R.D. Laing
4.26
Format: 112 pages, Paperback
R.D. Laing's new book marks a fascinating departure--in form and content--from his previous works. … read more
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11. The Lonely City: Adventures in the Art of Being Alone
By: Olivia Laing
4.22
Format: 206 pages, Hardcover
An expertly crafted work of reportage, memoir and biography on the subject of loneliness told throu… read more
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12. TransAtlantic
By: Colum McCann
4.07
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
The most mature work yet from an incomparable storyteller, TransAtlantic is a profound meditation o… read more
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13. The Hearing Trumpet
By: Leonora Carrington , Pablo Weisz Carrington
4.14
Format: None pages, Paperback
Leonora Carrington, the distinguished British-born Surrealist painter is also a writer of extraordi… read more
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14. How to Be Both
By: Ali Smith
4.10
Format: None pages, Kindle Edition
Passionate, compassionate, vitally inventive and scrupulously playful, Ali Smith's novels are like … read more
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15. The Collected Poems
By: Sylvia Plath , Ted Hughes
3.96
Format: 286 pages, Paperback
"By the time of her death, on 11 February, 1963, Sylvia Plath had written a large bulk of poetry. T… read more
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16. M Train
By: Patti Smith
4.02
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
M Train begins in the tiny Greenwich Village café where Smith goes every morning for black coffee, … read more
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- nonfiction
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"We sometimes eclipse our own dreams with reality."-Patti Smith, M Train
"He picks the lock of her dreams with her own hairpin."-Patti Smith, M Train
"Those were mystical times. An era of small pleasures."-Patti Smith, M Train
"I may not know what is in your mind, but I know how your mind works."-Patti Smith, M Train
17. Our Wives Under the Sea
By: Julia Armfield
3.78
Format: 240 pages, Paperback
Miri thinks she has got her wife back, when Leah finally returns after a deep-sea mission that ende… read more
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"El océano profundo es una casa embrujada: un lugar donde se mueven en la oscuridad cosas que no deberían existir."-Julia Armfield, Our Wives Under the Sea
"She refused almost every aspect of my help, the way women will when they've been bred to accept little more than the baset civility."-Julia Armfield, Our Wives Under the Sea
"I don't know why I expected you to read my mind,' I say, when I call back to leave her a message, 'I was just doing what I always do, assuming the world revolves around me."-Julia Armfield, Our Wives Under the Sea
"The space around us is a claw half grasped, holding tight without quite crushing, and I wish, in the idle way I always wish these days, that I felt more confident in my ability to breathe."-Julia Armfield, Our Wives Under the Sea
18. The Wren, the Wren
By: Anne Enright
3.55
Format: 278 pages, Hardcover
An incandescent novel about the inheritance of trauma, wonder, and love across three generations of… read more
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"It's not that I think about him constantly, he is my way of thinking. His mind is my compass, his eyes my only mirror."-Anne Enright, The Wren, the Wren
"We don’t walk down the same street as the person walking beside us. All we can do is tell the other person what we see. We can point at things and try to name them. If we do this well, our friend can…"-Anne Enright, The Wren, the Wren
"We don't walk down the same street as the person walking beside us. All we can do is tell the other person what we see. We can point at things and try to name them. If we do this well, our friend can…"-Anne Enright, The Wren, the Wren
19. Enter Ghost
By: Isabella Hammad
4.09
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
A bold, evocative new novel from the Sue Kaufman, Betty Trask and Plimpton Prize Award winner Isabe… read more
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20. The Friend
By: Sigrid Nunez
3.77
Format: 212 pages, Paperback
A moving story of love, friendship, grief, healing, and the magical bond between a woman and her do… read more
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"I like that the Aborigines say dogs make people human"-Sigrid Nunez, The Friend
"I know this is all moronically anthropomorphic, but sometimes that is the form love takes."-Sigrid Nunez, The Friend
"Anthropomorphism, I've decided, is inescapable, and though I might try to hide it I no longer fight it."-Sigrid Nunez, The Friend
"There's a certain type of person who, having read this far, is anxiously wondering: Does something bad happen to the dog?"-Sigrid Nunez, The Friend
21. The Cost of Living: A Working Autobiography
By: Deborah Levy
4.18
Format: 144 pages, Hardcover
A searching examination of all the dimensions of love, marriage, mourning, and kinship from two-tim… read more
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- biography
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"Sometimes we want to unbelong as much as we want to belong."-Deborah Levy, The Cost of Living: A Working Autobiography
"It was a big release from the terror of death to finally acknowledge that it is also always absurd."-Deborah Levy, The Cost of Living: A Working Autobiography
"I might one day risk falling in love again, but I was not going to lose my heart to the cardiologist."-Deborah Levy, The Cost of Living: A Working Autobiography
"To unfold any number of ideas through all the dimensions of time is the great adventure of the writing life."-Deborah Levy, The Cost of Living: A Working Autobiography
22. Strong Female Character
By: Fern Brady
4.48
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
A summary of my 1. I'm diagnosed with autism 20 years after telling a doctor I had it. 2. My… read more
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"I was continually over-identifying with fiction to try and find a template for myself and my story (143)"-Fern Brady, Strong Female Character
"For all her flaws, my mum never raised me with dysfunctional attitudes to food or made me think I was greedy or not thin enough. She was always clear she disliked me for me."-Fern Brady, Strong Female Character
"It's 2022 as I write this and I'm still waiting to find someone I respect to speak openly and in detail about meltdowns. I'm really annoyed that I have to be the one to do this."-Fern Brady, Strong Female Character
"It made perfect sense to me that my skin was bursting open in disgusting weeping pustules. The emotions felt volcanic and I'd never been good at communicating that to people in words so now my body w…"-Fern Brady, Strong Female Character
23. A Book of Days
By: Patti Smith
4.26
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
A deeply moving and brilliantly idiosyncratic visual book of days by the National Book Award–winnin… read more
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24. Maureen (Harold Fry #3)
By: Rachel Joyce
3.95
Format: 192 pages, Kindle Edition
From the bestselling author of The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry comes a moving novel told from… read more
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25. Cleanness
By: Garth Greenwell
3.80
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
In the highly anticipated follow-up to his beloved debut, What Belongs to You, Garth Greenwell deep… read more
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"Anything I am you have use for is yours."-Garth Greenwell, Cleanness
"Even annoyance was part of the pleasure we took in each other, we were that early in love."-Garth Greenwell, Cleanness
"Finally he laid his head on my chest. Don’t be like that, he said again as I put my arms around him. Do you see? You don’t have to be like that, he said. You can be like this."-Garth Greenwell, Cleanness
"I wanted to root into him, even as the wind said all rootedness was a sham, there were only passing arrangements, makeshift shelters and poor harbors, I love you, I thought suddenly in that rush that…"-Garth Greenwell, Cleanness
26. The Surreal Life of Leonora Carrington
By: Joanna Moorhead
4.27
Format: 296 pages, Hardcover
A personal biography of Leonora Carrington, the debutante who ran away to Mexico and became one of … read more
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- art history
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"Death makes pioneers of us all, whether we like it or whether we don't."-Joanna Moorhead, The Surreal Life of Leonora Carrington
"Leonora [had an] instinctive conviction that the world needs to be seen as a layering of experiences and events."-Joanna Moorhead, The Surreal Life of Leonora Carrington
"You're trying to intellectualise something, desperately, and you're wasting your time ... To make it into mini-logic ... you never understand by that road. - Quoting Leonora Carrington"-Joanna Moorhead, The Surreal Life of Leonora Carrington
27. American Sonnets for My Past and Future Assassin
By: Terrance Hayes
4.27
Format: 91 pages, Paperback
In seventy poems bearing the same title, Terrance Hayes explores the meanings of American, of assas… read more
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- nonfiction
"May all the gold you touch burn, rot, and rust."-Terrance Hayes, American Sonnets for My Past and Future Assassin
" Sometimes Is a good answer to any existential question."-Terrance Hayes, American Sonnets for My Past and Future Assassin
"Are you not the color of this country's current threat Advisory?"-Terrance Hayes, American Sonnets for My Past and Future Assassin
"Why youth seems to be my only requisite for beauty now is beyond me."-Terrance Hayes, American Sonnets for My Past and Future Assassin
28. Happily: A Personal History-with Fairy Tales
By: Sabrina Orah Mark
3.89
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
A beautifully written memoir-in-essays on fairy tales and their surprising relevance to modern life… read more
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- biography
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"We ask the child to drag around the unwieldy weight of magic. To clap wildly. To believe in what we believe in no longer. We ask the child to keep the awe we forgot how to hold. The fairy isn't the f…"-Sabrina Orah Mark, Happily: A Personal History-with Fairy Tales
29. Armed With Madness: The Surreal Leonora Carrington
By: Mary M. Talbot
3.79
Format: 144 pages, Hardcover
Award-winning storytellers Mary M. Talbot and Bryan Talbot’s full-color graphic novel Armed with Ma… read more
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30. Surreal Spaces: The Life and Art of Leonora Carrington
By: Joanna Moorhead
4.50
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
An illustrated biography of the pioneering British artist and writer, tracing her life and work thr… read more
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31. The Invisible Painting: My Memoir of Leonora Carrington
By: Gabriel Weisz Carrington
3.89
Format: 152 pages, Hardcover
Since her death in 2011, the memory of the widely renowned Surrealist artist and writer Leonora Car… read more
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