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The Hearing Trumpet

By: Leonora Carrington
Narrated by: Siân Phillips
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Surreal and splendidly unconventional, The Hearing Trumpet is an apocalyptic fairy-tale quest about an occult old ladies' home and the spry nonagenarian who ends up there. After coming into possession of a hearing trumpet, 92-year-old Marian Leatherby discovers her son's plans to send her to a nursing home. But this is no ordinary place.... Here there are strange rituals, orgiastic nuns, levitating abbesses, animalistic humans, humanistic animals, a search for the Holy Grail, and a plan to escape to Lapland and knit a tent....

Surrealist painter Leonora Carrington's novel is an exhilarating journey brimming with laugh-out-loud humor and absurd lunacy.

©1976 Leonora Carrington (P)2017 Naxos AudioBooks Witty
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The unlikely heroes, old women from an old people’s home, werewolves and bees.
Goats and cats all my favorite animals. Ravens were missing.

The most eccentric book

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A fantastic performance of this enchanting novel. It begins enjoyably, through the protagonist’s humorous outlook and spirals to its delightfully psychotic conclusion. A real joy.

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