{"product_id":"white-rabbits-down-below","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\u003e In 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.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e This 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":"Unity Books","offers":[{"title":"White Rabbits Down Below","offer_id":46628375331013,"sku":null,"price":37.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0625\/6679\/3413\/files\/978-0-241-80961-7.jpg?v=1785302794","url":"https:\/\/unitybooks.myshopify.com\/products\/white-rabbits-down-below","provider":"Unity Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}