{"product_id":"the-hearing-trumpet","title":"The Hearing Trumpet","description":"\u003cp\u003eAuthor: Leonora Carrington\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePublisher: NYRB Classics (2021)\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"UTF-8\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eLeonora Carrington, painter, playwright, and novelist, was a surrealist trickster par excellence, and \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThe Hearing Trumpet\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e 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 earth’s 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.”\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e“Her 1974 novel, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Hearing Trumpet\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, newly reissued, stands out as something at last truly radical, undoing not only our expectations of time and space, but of the psyche and its boundaries. . . . [A] mind-flaying masterpiece, held together by Carrington’s gifts of wit, imagination and suspense.” \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e–Blake Butler\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003ci\u003e“The Hearing Trumpet\u003c\/i\u003e is so inspiring! Free-flowing, spiky imagination. I love its freedom, its humour and how it invents its own laws.” \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e–Björk\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Reading \u003ci\u003eThe Hearing Trumpet\u003c\/i\u003e liberates us from the miserable reality of our days.” \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e–Luis Buñuel\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“\u003cem\u003eThe Hearing Trumpet \u003c\/em\u003e. . . reads on its parodic surface like an Agatha Christie domestic mystery, but one melted, dissolved by extreme heat into something unthinkably other, and reconstructed as the casebook of an alchemist. . . . It asks its readers to allow the dark, allow the wild and rethink how power works. It is a work of massive optimism. . . . One of the most original, joyful, satisfying, and quietly visionary novels of the twentieth century.”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan\u003e–Ali Smith\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Penguin Random House","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":39676567453795,"sku":"9781681374642","price":16.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0278\/8655\/1139\/products\/image_0c46f994-03b6-4cda-9030-d78d571cc15e.jpg?v=1638733892","url":"https:\/\/woodlandpatternbookcenter.com\/products\/the-hearing-trumpet","provider":"Woodland Pattern","version":"1.0","type":"link"}