{"product_id":"the-stone-door-9781681378947","title":"The Stone Door","description":"\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\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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Leonora Carrington\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e New York Review of Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 07\/22\/2025\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 144\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.37lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 7.91h x 5.07w x 0.44d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781681378947","brand":"Ripon Bookstore","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44150159179821,"sku":"9781681378947","price":15.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0681\/0501\/1245\/files\/img_b7dd7e3c-0e9b-47e4-9dc4-c15732ea58e0.jpg?v=1757311711","url":"https:\/\/riponbookstore.com\/products\/the-stone-door-9781681378947","provider":"Ripon Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}