{"product_id":"stone-door","title":"Stone Door","description":"\u003cbody\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eTitle: \u003c\/b\u003eStone Door\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor: \u003c\/b\u003eLeonora Carrington\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN: \u003c\/b\u003e9781681378947\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher: \u003c\/b\u003eNYRB Classics\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished: \u003c\/b\u003e2024\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding: \u003c\/b\u003ePaperback\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage: \u003c\/b\u003eEnglish\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition Note: \u003c\/b\u003eNew from the publisher\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher Description: \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eAncient Mesopotamia, the Zodiac, and the land of the dead feature in this wildly surrealistic adventure story--Leonora Carrington's revolutionary second novel, long out of print.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\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 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.\u003c\/body\u003e","brand":"NYRB Classics","offers":[{"title":"Stone Door | Leonora Carrington | Paperback | 9781681378947 | New | Fiction 1622881","offer_id":50694231392514,"sku":"1622881","price":30.36,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0609\/3327\/5906\/files\/91pNO7MC6wL.jpg?v=1791551205","url":"https:\/\/boswellsbooks.com\/products\/stone-door","provider":"Boswell's Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}