The Hearing Trumpet by Carrington, Leonora, paperback, Used - Like New
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Item specifics
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- ISBN
- 1681374641
About this product
Product Identifiers
Publisher
New York Review of Books, Incorporated, T.H.E.
ISBN-10
1681374641
ISBN-13
9781681374642
eBay Product ID (ePID)
2309433596
Product Key Features
Book Title
Hearing Trumpet
Number of Pages
224 Pages
Language
English
Publication Year
2021
Topic
Fantasy / General, Fantasy / Humorous, Contemporary Women, Absurdist
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
Fiction
Format
Trade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height
0.7 in
Item Weight
8.4 Oz
Item Length
8 in
Item Width
5 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
LCCN
2020-005721
Dewey Edition
23
Reviews
"[O]ne of the great comic novels of the twentieth century, The Hearing Trumpet reads like a spectacular reassemblage of old and new genres, the campy, illegitimate offspring of Margaret Cavendish's romances and Robert Graves's histories, with Thomas Pynchon's riotous paranoia spliced in to keep it limber and receptive to the political anxieties of its moment." --Merve Emre, The New Yorker "Her 1974 novel, The Hearing Trumpet , 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." --Blake Butler, The New York Times "The Hearing Trumpet . . . 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." --Ali Smith "In The Hearing Trumpet , Carrington leans into her starkest eccentricities, depicting the subversive power of womanhood with more imaginative zeal than almost any other 20th century novelist." --Brady Brickner-Wood, Ploughshares "The Hearing Trumpet is so inspiring! Free-flowing, spiky imagination. I love its freedom, its humour and how it invents its own laws." --Björk, The Guardian "Those of us who are young or middle-aged and who have never been taught how to grow old, will find in this book a perfect model." --Margot Farnham, Zero "Reading The Hearing Trumpet liberates us from the miserable reality of our days." --Luis Buñuel "Briton Leonora Carrington is better known as a Mexican surrealist painter, but here she creates an extraordinary feminist fantasy, in which old age becomes a riotous adventure." -- The Guardian , "1000 novels everyone must read" "Even when the plot turns grim, the prose is jaunty, a sign of its author's reveling in her own perverse imagination." --Matthew Sharpe "[Carrington's] comic masterpiece." --Marina Warner, The Guardian "The Hearing Trumpet is a tremendously weird novel that revels in inconclusive ideas, surreal reimaginings, and the peculiarities of human consciousness. While the deluge of mythology and allusion can occasionally inhibit an otherwise pleasurable reading experience, The Hearing Trumpet's singular, provocative perspective provides a vivid glimpse into Leonora Carrington's invaluably frenetic mind." --Brady Brickner-Wood, Ploughshares, "[O]ne of the great comic novels of the twentieth century, The Hearing Trumpet reads like a spectacular reassemblage of old and new genres, the campy, illegitimate offspring of Margaret Cavendish's romances and Robert Graves's histories, with Thomas Pynchon's riotous paranoia spliced in to keep it limber and receptive to the political anxieties of its moment." --Merve Emre, The New Yorker "Her 1974 novel, The Hearing Trumpet , 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." --Blake Butler, The New York Times "A version of Carrington's episode in the sanatorium also found its way into a novel, The Hearing Trumpet , written in the fifties or early sixties. But it's not lightly fictionalized autobiography along the lines of The Bell Jar . Here the experience is transformed into something more fabulist, and much more interesting than the memoir. In the novel, delusions of grandeur become real powers." --Elisa Gabbert, The Paris Review Daily "The Hearing Trumpet . . . 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." --Ali Smith "In The Hearing Trumpet , Carrington leans into her starkest eccentricities, depicting the subversive power of womanhood with more imaginative zeal than almost any other 20th century novelist." --Brady Brickner-Wood, Ploughshares "The Hearing Trumpet is so inspiring! Free-flowing, spiky imagination. I love its freedom, its humour and how it invents its own laws." --Björk, The Guardian "Those of us who are young or middle-aged and who have never been taught how to grow old, will find in this book a perfect model." --Margot Farnham, Zero "Reading The Hearing Trumpet liberates us from the miserable reality of our days." --Luis Buñuel "Briton Leonora Carrington is better known as a Mexican surrealist painter, but here she creates an extraordinary feminist fantasy, in which old age becomes a riotous adventure." -- The Guardian , "1000 novels everyone must read" "Even when the plot turns grim, the prose is jaunty, a sign of its author's reveling in her own perverse imagination." --Matthew Sharpe "[Carrington's] comic masterpiece." --Marina Warner, The Guardian "The Hearing Trumpet is a tremendously weird novel that revels in inconclusive ideas, surreal reimaginings, and the peculiarities of human consciousness. While the deluge of mythology and allusion can occasionally inhibit an otherwise pleasurable reading experience, The Hearing Trumpet's singular, provocative perspective provides a vivid glimpse into Leonora Carrington's invaluably frenetic mind." --Brady Brickner-Wood, Ploughshares "Magical. . . All [Leonora Carrington's] work is informed by her status as a witch of some kind." --Backlisted Podcast, "[O]ne of the great comic novels of the twentieth century, The Hearing Trumpet reads like a spectacular reassemblage of old and new genres, the campy, illegitimate offspring of Margaret Cavendish's romances and Robert Graves's histories, with Thomas Pynchon's riotous paranoia spliced in to keep it limber and receptive to the political anxieties of its moment." --Merve Emre, The New Yorker "Her 1974 novel, The Hearing Trumpet , 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." --Blake Butler, The New York Times "The Hearing Trumpet . . . 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." --Ali Smith "The Hearing Trumpet is so inspiring! Free-flowing, spiky imagination. I love its freedom, its humour and how it invents its own laws." --Björk, The Guardian "Those of us who are young or middle-aged and who have never been taught how to grow old, will find in this book a perfect model." --Margot Farnham, Zero "Reading The Hearing Trumpet liberates us from the miserable reality of our days." --Luis Buñuel "Briton Leonora Carrington is better known as a Mexican surrealist painter, but here she creates an extraordinary feminist fantasy, in which old age becomes a riotous adventure." -- The Guardian , "1000 novels everyone must read" "Even when the plot turns grim, the prose is jaunty, a sign of its author's reveling in her own perverse imagination." --Matthew Sharpe "[Carrington's] comic masterpiece." --Marina Warner, The Guardian, "Reading The Hearing Trumpet liberates us from the miserable reality of our days." --Luis Buñuel "One of the most original, joyful, satisfying and quietly visionary novels of the twentieth century." --Ali Smith "This book is so inspiring . . . I love its freedom, its humour and how it invents its own laws." --Björk "Briton Leonora Carrington is better known as a Mexican surrealist painter, but here she creates an extraordinary feminist fantasy, in which old age becomes a riotous adventure." -- The Guardian , "1000 novels everyone must read" "Even when the plot turns grim, the prose is jaunty, a sign of its author's reveling in her own perverse imagination." --Matthew Sharpe "[Carrington's] comic masterpiece." --Marina Warner, The Guardian
TitleLeading
The
Afterword by
Tokarczuk, Olga
Dewey Decimal
823.914
Synopsis
An old woman enters into a fantastical world of dreams and nightmares in this surrealist classic admired by Björk and Luis Buñuel. Leonora Carrington, painter, playwright, and novelist, was a surrealist trickster par excellence, and The Hearing Trumpet 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.", An old woman enters into a fantastical world of dreams and nightmares in this surrealist classic admired by Bj rk and Luis Bu uel. Leonora Carrington, painter, playwright, and novelist, was a surrealist trickster par excellence, and The Hearing Trumpet 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."
LC Classification Number
PR6053.A6965H4 2020
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