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The Village in the Valley: Travels in Mexico & Italy

The Village in the Valley: Travels in Mexico & Italy

Sargood, Corinna

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ISBN10: 1909248711
ISBN13: 9781909248717
Publisher: Prospect Books (UK)
Published: Jun 30 2021
Pages: 320
Weight: 1.25
Height: 0.90 Width: 6.70 Depth: 9.60
Language: English
Corinna Sargood, who illustrated Patience Gray's Honey from a Weed, spends several months each year in Mexico with her partner, Richard, a furniture maker. They live a simple life, renting a home in the Village in the Valley, south of Mexico City, a life she began in her fifties. When Corinna was fifty, she first travelled to Mexico, with Richard, her partner of a few months standing. She had a commission to illustrate a book by the novelist Angela Carter. Angela Carter had asked me to make another series of lino cuts to illustrate the second Virago Book of Fairy Tales that she was editing. As I had calculated that it would take about 3 months to complete, it seemed a good opportunity to decamp to another country and to work there. Angela was a great friend of mine. With very few modern amenities, they learnt how to do the laundry in the communal washing place, on what occasions to bring candles to social events, and when - and more importantly why - they should greet the turkeys they met on their walks. Corinna's memoir of this period is abundantly illustrated with her drawings.

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