The Living Stones (Cornwall) - 9781805330974
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Product Details
Author:
Ithell Colquhoun
Format:
Paperback
Pages:
240
Publisher:
Pushkin Press (August 5, 2025)
Language:
English
Audience:
General/trade
ISBN-13:
9781805330974
ISBN-10:
1805330977
Weight:
7.6oz
Dimensions:
5.08" x 7.79" x 0.75"
File:
RandomHouse-PRH_Book_Company_PRH_PRT_Onix_full_active_D20260705T122503_156890384-20260705.xml
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RandomHouse
List Price:
$17.95
Country of Origin:
United Kingdom
Pub Discount:
65
Series:
Pushkin Press Classics
Case Pack:
24
As low as:
$13.82
Publisher Identifier:
P-RH
Discount Code:
A
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Yes
Imprint:
Pushkin Press Classics
Overview
A classic travelogue by Britain's foremost female surrealist painter, which immerses the reader in a dreamlike Cornwall where landscape and legend meet
“Her responses to the aura of place are keen, and her eye for detail is excitingly sharp” — Sunday Times
“She is sensitive to the ways of wind and water, the flowers and birds and trees” — Country Life
In the midst of the 2nd World War, surrealist painter Ithell Colquhoun withdraws from London to Cornwall, searching for a studio and a refuge from the Blitz, as well as from a shattered marriage. So begins a profound and lifelong relationship with Britain's westernmost county. It is a land of granite ridges and lush valleys, surrounded by sea and steeped in myth, where the ancient Celtic past makes contact with the present. There she finds a hut with no running water or electricity, and lovingly brings it to life, creating a haven for her creative pursuits, and slowly coming to think of these rivers, hills and caves, seen in every season, as her true home.
Drawn to the sacred and the beautiful, the wild and the weird, Colquhoun writes about Cornwall as a living landscape, where every tree, standing stone and holy well is a palimpsest of folklore - and perhaps a place where everyday reality connects to the world beyond. In prose as gorgeously dreamlike as it is sharply witty, this inimitable artist gives us a travelogue deeply attuned to natural rhythms, local atmosphere and the eerie beauty of a place that is as much legend as it is water and rock.
“Her responses to the aura of place are keen, and her eye for detail is excitingly sharp” — Sunday Times
“She is sensitive to the ways of wind and water, the flowers and birds and trees” — Country Life
In the midst of the 2nd World War, surrealist painter Ithell Colquhoun withdraws from London to Cornwall, searching for a studio and a refuge from the Blitz, as well as from a shattered marriage. So begins a profound and lifelong relationship with Britain's westernmost county. It is a land of granite ridges and lush valleys, surrounded by sea and steeped in myth, where the ancient Celtic past makes contact with the present. There she finds a hut with no running water or electricity, and lovingly brings it to life, creating a haven for her creative pursuits, and slowly coming to think of these rivers, hills and caves, seen in every season, as her true home.
Drawn to the sacred and the beautiful, the wild and the weird, Colquhoun writes about Cornwall as a living landscape, where every tree, standing stone and holy well is a palimpsest of folklore - and perhaps a place where everyday reality connects to the world beyond. In prose as gorgeously dreamlike as it is sharply witty, this inimitable artist gives us a travelogue deeply attuned to natural rhythms, local atmosphere and the eerie beauty of a place that is as much legend as it is water and rock.
