{"product_id":"the-stone-door-leonora-carrington-paperback","title":"The Stone Door -- Leonora Carrington, Paperback","description":"\u003cstrong\u003eAncient Mesopotamia, the Zodiac, and the land of the dead feature in this wildly surrealistic adventure story--Leonora Carrington's revolutionary first novel, long out of print.\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Stone Door\u003c\/i\u003e is an omen, an incantation, and an adventure story rolled into one. Built in layers like a puzzle box, it is the tale of two people, of love and the Zodiac and the Kabbalah, of Transylvania and Mesopotamia converging at the Caucasus, of a mad Hungarian King named Böles Kilary and of a woman's discovery of an initiatory code that leads to a Cyclopean obstacle, to love, self and awareness, to the great stone door of Kescke and beyond. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWritten at the end of World War II but not published until 1977 and long unavailable, \u003ci\u003eThe Stone Door\u003c\/i\u003e is at once a celebration of the union of the surrealist painter Leonora Carrington and her husband, the Hungarian-born photographer Chiki Weisz, and an argument for the unification of the male and the female as a means of liberating the human race.\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/strong\u003e Leonora Carrington\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/strong\u003e New York Review of Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePublished:\u003c\/strong\u003e 7\/22\/2025\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 144\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/strong\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWeight:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.37 lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSize:\u003c\/strong\u003e 7.91\" H x 5.07\" L x 0.44\" W\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eISBN:\u003c\/strong\u003e 9781681378947\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Flowerburst","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50795114299696,"sku":"9781681378947","price":15.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0879\/2712\/8368\/files\/9781681378947_eb29d9af-636e-4b71-87e2-f56b55a26f39.jpg?v=1776337888","url":"https:\/\/flowerburst.co\/products\/the-stone-door-leonora-carrington-paperback","provider":"Flowerburst","version":"1.0","type":"link"}