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The Hearing Trumpet

✍ Scribed by leonora Carrington

Book ID: 112302769
Publisher: New York Review Books
Year: 2021
Tongue: en-US
Weight: 6 MB
Category: Fiction
ISBN-13: 9781681374659

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✦ Synopsis

An old woman enters into a fantastical world of dreams and nightmares in this surrealist classic admired by Bj ork 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...

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