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Carrington, Leonora

The Milk of Dreams

54 pp. | NYRB | May, 2017 | Trade ISBN 978-1-68137-094-1 $15.95 | Ebook ISBN 978-1-68137-095-8
(3) 1-3 "Mrs. Dolores Catapum de la Garza was old, ugly, a nasty person, and smelled of caca." So begins a typically odd story in this collection of vignettes by Carrington, an English-born Mexican surrealist artist and writer (1917–2011); her spare accompanying illustrations are frequently absurd (see "Headless John"). Children receptive to the bizarre may find that Carrington's work favorably recalls Shel Silverstein's, minus the rhymes.
Reviewer: Nell Beram

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