Fiction: Ithell Colquhoun's Goose of Hermogenes

[Paul Ferguson]

"A trancelike feminist fable of magic, alchemy, and the battle of the sexes by Britain’s foremost surrealist painter. Calcination. Putrefaction. Exaltation. Trapped on an enchanted island ruled by her uncle, a young woman must pass through the stages of alchemical transformation to escape. He wants to conquer death by magic – and she may pay the price for his ambition."

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