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The Hearing Trumpet
Written by Leonora Carrington
Narrated by Sian Phillips
Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
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Surreal and splendidly unconventional, The Hearing Trumpet is an apocalyptic fairytale 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... 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.
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Reviews for The Hearing Trumpet
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- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Absolutely marvelous, now I want to be an elderly lady (preferably with a beard).
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- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5A tale by a 90 year old woman which just gets crazier and crazier. I especially liked the last third. When you think the story will zig, it zags!
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Utterly brilliant writing and the narration is impeccable. The vivid imagery and talented voice acting is like sending your brain to an imaginary theme park. One of the best audiobooks I've listened to and will probably be listening to again and again in the future.