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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 Funny Fantasy
Surreal Story • Humorous Narrative • Unique Storytelling • Engaging Fantasy • Lighthearted Tale • Perfect Voice
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What a discovery! This is the book I would’ve liked to write, full of magical realism, and a vision that keeps bending, bending bending our notion of what should happen. All the while, keeping wonderful solid characters.

I want to see this as a movie

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Brilliantly performed. The voice actress kept me engaged. The story itself started very much normal than took a drastic dip into fantasy out of nowhere. Interesting to say the least.

Old woman's daydream?

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I can't say that I followed a plot so much as that I simply enjoyed the ride. From bearded ladies to the Spanish Revolution to werewolves saving the grail. The narration was absolutely perfect.

fantastical ride

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One of the strangest stories I have ever had the pleasure of reading. Endlessly surreal and funny The Hearing Trumpet is a wonderful read about aging, witches and global cooling.

Weird and wonderful

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I can honestly say that this is one of the oddest books I've ever read but in a very good way. The narrator was outstanding. I hope anyone who glances at this review will take a chance on this book. You will not read another one like it.

Odd and Marvelous - One in a Million

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This book keeps you guessing, and then slowly, as if you are joining a cult, brings you to accept increasingly bizzare concepts until you are neck deep in a strange reality without knowing how you arrived there.

Beautiful and surreal

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I so much enjoyed this light-hearted, often comical, well-written and skillful story. So entertainingly laying bear the foibles of humanity from the perspective of a ninety-something adventuress.

A unique story by a unique mind.

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A wonderful surrealistic fairy tale with wise old women at its center. A great listen.

Fascinating

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First off the narrator was excellent. I hope she does more books. Her voice was just perfect!!

The storyline and writing was wonderful! What an interesting view of what growing old must be like. I really enjoyed this book. Nice job!

Delightful

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I can not believe that I have lived this long without reading this book. I was blown away by it, start to finish.

Best book I've listened to in a while

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