The Hearing Trumpet
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The Hearing Trumpet by Leonora Carrington
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."
Leonora Carrington (1917-2011) was born to an industrialist father and an Irish mother in Lancashire, England. At her family's home, Crookhey Hall, she was nurtured on wonderful folk tales recounted to her by her Irish nanny. Before enrolling in art school in Florence, Carrington was expelled from two convent schools. She fled Europe after WWII and moved in Mexico, where she married and had two kids with photographer Imre Weisz. Carrington lived the rest of her life in Mexico City, where she was surrounded by like-minded artists such as Remedios Varo and Alejandro Jodorowsky.
A book, The Hearing Trumpet (1976), and two collections of short tales are among Carrington's published works. Her memoir, Down Below, is published by NYRB Classics, and her collection of short stories, Complete Tales, is published by Dorothy, a Publishing Project in the United States and Silver Press in the United Kingdom.
| SKU | Unavailable |
| ISBN 13 | 9781681374642 |
| ISBN 10 | 1681374641 |
| Title | The Hearing Trumpet |
| Author | Leonora Carrington |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | The New York Review of Books, Inc |
| Year published | 2021-01-05 |
| Number of pages | 224 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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