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The Hearing Trumpet

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The Hearing Trumpet

By: Leonora Carrington
Narrated by: Siân Phillips
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Surreal and splendidly unconventional, The Hearing Trumpet is an apocalyptic fairy-tale quest about an occult old ladies' home and the spry nonagenarian who ends up there. After coming into possession of a hearing trumpet, 92-year-old Marian Leatherby discovers her son's plans to send her to a nursing home. But this is no ordinary place.... Here there are strange rituals, orgiastic nuns, levitating abbesses, animalistic humans, humanistic animals, a search for the Holy Grail, and a plan to escape to Lapland and knit a tent....

Surrealist painter Leonora Carrington's novel is an exhilarating journey brimming with laugh-out-loud humor and absurd lunacy.

©1976 Leonora Carrington (P)2017 Naxos AudioBooks
Contemporary Fiction Genre Fiction Witty Funny Fantasy
Magical Realism • Unique Storyline • Excellent Narrator • Lighthearted Comedy • Surrealistic Fairytale • Perfect Voice

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It was well written. The characters were well developed, and this is a topic relatable .

The character and the writing.

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What a discovery! This is the book I would’ve liked to write, full of magical realism, and a vision that keeps bending, bending bending our notion of what should happen. All the while, keeping wonderful solid characters.

I want to see this as a movie

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For me this novel was interesting at the outset, but somewhere shortly after the middle it became weird and boring. My experience of this work by Carrington was very different from the impact that her stunning sculptures had on me when I experienced them in the Museum Leonora Carrington in Xilitla, Mexico. Those sculptures were so powerful they literally brought me to tears.

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Loved this surrelast gypsy dream of a novel flirting with loneliness, isolation, old age, and archaic phantasms.

Absurdism invades the Old Folks Home

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Brilliantly performed. The voice actress kept me engaged. The story itself started very much normal than took a drastic dip into fantasy out of nowhere. Interesting to say the least.

Old woman's daydream?

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