The Hearing Trumpet

by Carrington, Leonora
ISBN: 9781681374642
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Overview

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

One of the first things ninety-two-year-old Marian Leatherby overhears when she is given an ornate hearing trumpet is her family plotting to commit her to an institution. Soon, she finds herself trapped inside a sinister retirement home, where the elderly must inhabit buildings shaped like birthday cakes and igloos, endure twisted religious preaching and eat in a canteen overlooked by the mysterious portrait of a leering Abbess. But when another resident secretly hands Marian a book recounting the life of the Abbess, a joyous and brilliantly surreal adventure begins to unfold. Written in the early 1960s, The Hearing Trumpet remains one of the most original and inspirational of all fantastic novels.

  • Format: TradePaperback
  • Author: Carrington, Leonora
  • ISBN: 9781681374642
  • Condition: Used
  • Dimensions: 8.20 x 0.70
  • Number Of Pages: 224
  • Publication Year: 2021