“[Carrington’s] work with its vibrant dehumanized animals, its mythic universality, and mysterious lucidity remains a marvel. She was and remains forever rad.” —Joy Williams, Book Post
“The magically unfolding fable tells of Zacharias, a twentieth-century Hungarian Jew who is destined to voyage beyond the boundaries of time to the shores of ancient Mesopotamia, and open the great stone door of the mountain Kescke to release his true love. This modern fairy tale burns with passion and purpose.∏ —Publishers Weekly
“The Stone Door is arguably Carrington’s most probing, and also perhaps the most earnest, fictional inquiry into alternative modes of representation…. In true surrealist fashion, the novel calls both for a social revolution and a psychological one.” —Anna Watz
“One of the reasons that I love The Stone Door is its duality of the mystical and the earthly at the same time. When I read this work, I’m traveling through these places and landscapes. The elements. Carrington includes everything, and that’s what I’m drawn to in her work. It’s spiritual, it’s political, it’s life-affirming.” —Stacy Klein
“Carrington’s novella, The Stone Door, tells the story of a quest undertaken by the boy, Zacharias, to enter the country of the Dead, and reads like a hashish dream…. [The Stone Door] may send the surrealists among us into backflips.” —Kirkus Reviews
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