The Hearing Trumpet

De: Leonora Carrington

Narrado por: Siân Phillips

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

I want to see this as a movie

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.

Mixed review

For me this novel was interesting at the outset, but somewhere shortly after the middle it became weird and boring. My experience of this work by Carrington was very different from the impact that her stunning sculptures had on me when I experienced them in the Museum Leonora Carrington in Xilitla, Mexico. Those sculptures were so powerful they literally brought me to tears.

Absurdism invades the Old Folks Home

Loved this surrelast gypsy dream of a novel flirting with loneliness, isolation, old age, and archaic phantasms.

Old woman's daydream?

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.

fantastical ride

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.

Weird and wonderful

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.

Odd and Marvelous - One in a Million

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.

Beautiful and surreal

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.

A unique story by a unique mind.

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.

Fascinating

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