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Title	:	The Hearing Trumpet
Author	:	Leonora Carrington
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	First Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 199 pages
Published	:	February 2nd 2004 by Exact Change (first published 1974)
Categories	:	Fiction. Fantasy. Magical Realism. Classics. Art. Surreal

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Leonora Carrington, the distinguished British-born Surrealist painter is also a writer of extraordinary imagination and charm. Exact Change launched a program of reprinting her fiction with what is perhaps her best loved book.

The Hearing Trumpet is the story of 92-year-old Marian Leatherby, who is given the gift of a hearing trumpet only to discover that what her family is saying is that she is to be committed to an institution. But this is an institution where the buildings are shaped like birthday cakes and igloos, where the Winking Abbess and the Queen Bee reign, and where the gateway to the underworld is open. It is also the scene of a mysterious murder.

Occult twin to Alice in Wonderland, The Hearing Trumpet is a classic of fantastic literature that has been translated and celebrated throughout the world.

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Original Title:	The Hearing Trumpet
ISBN:	1878972197 (ISBN13: 9781878972194)
Edition Language:	English
Characters:	Marian Leatherby

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A novel way of spring cleaningIt was this interview in the Guardian that brought me here. Olga Tokarczuk mentions that one influence on Drive your Plow over the Bones of the Dead was the hilarious, sassy 92 year old narrator of this novel, Marian Leatherby. For the first 72 pages I was with her, absolutely, laughing like a drain and thinking that my wholehearted recommendation here would say things like "Do not read in a public place or when drinking tea", you know, a high snort count. But then,

People under seventy and over seven are very unreliable if they are not cats.

The Hearing Trumpet is a feminist Holy Grail quest and apocalypse novel from the perspective of a 92-year-old womanMarianwho is sent against her will to an old persons facility (which is a sprawling, surrealist Spanish castle). And its fantastic, warm, cerebral, hilarious. I cant remember the last time I laughed out loud while reading, and I did so several times with THT, and read the funniest passages to my SO. Ive always loved novels with older women as the protagonists, and this one features

A book I've been circling for years, even before I joined Goodreads: depending what I heard about it, sometimes it sounded enticing and light (a charming, funny, Alice-like fantasy with intellectual depth) sometimes depressing (about an old lady in an oppressive nursing home). I was finally induced to read it by this recent interview with Olga Tokarczuk, in which she says it influenced her newly-translated Drive your Plow over the Bones of the Dead. Some editions of The Hearing Trumpet,

Leonara Carrington is one of my favourite artists and this book captures her surreal and quirky soul. There are some great passages - what a wit! - and some nicely structured sentences with clever comic timing. As a whole novel, it tends to drag, the plot is sketchy and she even forgets about the hearing trumpet, a key object in the book, for long stretches. Carrington needed a ruthless editor. If all else fails, you can just enjoy the handful of her illustrations.

Brava. In a 1977 interview that appears as a foonote on the first page of the introduction of this edition, Carrington notes that in this book she "wanted to appear as an old lady so that I could poke fun at sinister things." And this she does, and does it so well that I couldn't help falling in love with Marian as well as with the book itself. Marian Leatherby is ninety-two and lives with her son Galahad, his wife Muriel, and one of their five children who still lives at home. Her best friend

a story of a grandmother discovering herself unwelcome in her own home gradually transforms into a feminist grail myth and a new ice age. makes sense.