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The hearing trumpet / Leonora Carrington ; illustrations by Pablo Weisz-Carrington

By:

Carrington, Leonora, (, 1917-2011)

Contributor(s):

Carrington, Pablo Weisz

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: Boston, Mass. : Exact Change , 1996, c1974.Description: 199 p. : ill. ; 21 cmISBN:

9781878972194

Subject(s):

Fantasy

DDC classification:

LAS FIC CAR

LOC classification:

PR6053.A6965 H4 1985

Summary: Leonora Carrington, the distinguished British-born Surrealist painter who now makes her home in Mexico City, is also a writer of extraordinary imagination and charm. Exact Change launched a program of reprinting her fiction with what is perhaps her best loved book. The Hearing Trumpetis the story of 92-year-old Marian Leatherby, who is given the gift of a hearing trumpet only to discover that what her family is saying is that she is to be committed to an institution. But this is an institution where the buildings are shaped like birthday cakes and igloos, where the Winking Abbess and the Queen Bee reign, and where the gateway to the underworld is open. It is also the scene of a mysterious murder. Occult twin to Alice in Wonderland, The Hearing Trumpetis a classic of fantastic literature that has been translated and celebrated throughout theMenos

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Item type	Current library	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Latin American Studies	Biblioteca Pública de San Miguel de Allende, A.C.	LAS FIC CAR (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		018130

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Leonora Carrington, the distinguished British-born Surrealist painter who now makes her home in Mexico City, is also a writer of extraordinary imagination and charm. Exact Change launched a program of reprinting her fiction with what is perhaps her best loved book. The Hearing Trumpetis the story of 92-year-old Marian Leatherby, who is given the gift of a hearing trumpet only to discover that what her family is saying is that she is to be committed to an institution. But this is an institution where the buildings are shaped like birthday cakes and igloos, where the Winking Abbess and the Queen Bee reign, and where the gateway to the underworld is open. It is also the scene of a mysterious murder. Occult twin to Alice in Wonderland, The Hearing Trumpetis a classic of fantastic literature that has been translated and celebrated throughout theMenos

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