num_pages: 199
description: 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.
language: English
title: The Hearing Trumpet
titlecomplete: The Hearing Trumpet
characters: Dott. Gambit, Georgina Sykes, Robert, Galahad, Vera Van Totch, Marian Leatherby, Natacha Gonzalez, Maud Somers, Christabel Burns, Carmella Velazquez, Veronica Adams, Muriel, Anna Wertz
genres: Art, Literary Fiction, Novels, Womens, Literature, Fantasy, Classics, Fiction, Surreal, Magical Realism
ratings_count: 7265
publisher: Exact Change