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The Hearing Trumpet (New York Review Books Classics)
NYRB Classics
ISBN13:
9781681374642
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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 earths 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.
- | Author: Leonora Carrington
- | Publisher: NYRB Classics
- | Publication Date: January 05, 2021
- | Number of Pages: 224 pages
- | Language: English
- | Binding: Paperback
- | ISBN-10: 1681374641
- | ISBN-13: 9781681374642
- Author:
- Leonora Carrington
- Publisher:
- NYRB Classics
- Publication Date:
- January 05, 2021
- Number of pages:
- 224 pages
- Language:
- English
- Binding:
- Paperback
- ISBN-10:
- 1681374641
- ISBN-13:
- 9781681374642