The Hearing Trumpet
  • Published:
    Oct-1976 (Hardcover)
    1985 (Paperback)
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    Print / eBook / Audio
  • Main Genre:
    General Fiction
  • Pages:
    158
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An old woman enters into a fantastical world of dreams and nightmares in this surrealist classic admired by Björk and Luis Buñuel.

Leonora Carrington, painter, playwright, and novelist, was a surrealist trickster par excellence, and The Hearing Trumpet is the witty, celebratory key to her anarchic and allusive body of work. The novel begins in the bourgeois comfort of a residential corner of a Mexican city and ends with a man-made apocalypse that promises to usher in the earth's rebirth. In between we are swept off to a most curious old-age home run by a self-improvement cult and drawn several centuries back in time with a cross-dressing Abbess who is on a quest to restore the Holy Grail to its rightful owner, the Goddess Venus. Guiding us is one of the most unexpected heroines in twentieth-century literature, a nonagenarian vegetarian named Marian Leatherby, who, as Olga Tokarczuk writes in her afterword, is “hard of hearing” but “full of life.”
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EDITIONS
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    • Sep-1985
    • City Lights Books
    • Trade Paperback
    • ISBN: 0872861694
    • ISBN13: 9780872861695
    •  
    • Feb-2004
    • Exact Change
    • Trade Paperback
    • ISBN: 1878972197
    • ISBN13: 9781878972194
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    • Oct-2005
    • Penguin (UK)
    • Trade Paperback
    • ISBN: 0141187999
    • ISBN13: 9780141187990
    •  
    • Jan-2021
    • New York Review Books
    • Trade Paperback
    • ISBN: 1681374641
    • ISBN13: 9781681374642
    • First Edition
    • Oct-1976
    • St. Martin's
    • Hardcover
    • ISBN: 0312365756
    • ISBN13: 9780312365752
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    • Nov-2020
    • NYRB Classics
    • eBook (Kindle)
    •  
    • Jan-2021
    • New York Review Books
    • eBook
    • ISBN: 168137465X
    • ISBN13: 9781681374659
    •  
    • Sep-2017
    • Naxos Audiobooks
    • Audio CD
    • ISBN: 1781981388
    • ISBN13: 9781781981382



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