$31.70
- Paperback
176 pages
- Release Date
28 October 2005
Summary
‘Reading The Hearing Trumpet liberates us from the miserable reality of our days’ Luis Bunuel
The Hearing Trumpet is 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.…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780141187990 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0141187999 |
| Author: | Leonora Carrington, Ali Smith |
| Publisher: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Imprint: | Penguin Classics |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 176 |
| Release Date: | 28 October 2005 |
| Weight: | 148g |
| Dimensions: | 197mm x 128mm x 12mm |
| Series: | Penguin Modern Classics |
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This book is so inspiring…I love its freedom, its humour and how it invents its own laws. What specifically do I take from her? Her wig
This book is so inspiring…I love its freedom, its humour and how it invents its own laws. What specifically do I take from her? Her wig – Björk
About The Author
Leonora Carrington
Leonora Carrington was a British born Surrealist painter and writer who has been described, alongside people such as Pablo Picasso and Joan Miro, as one of the leading lights of the Surrealist movement. Born in Lancashire in 1917 to a strict Catholic family she first came into contact with surrealism through her lover, Surrealist painter Max Ernst, before moving to Mexico in 1942. The Hearing Trumpet, her most famous piece of writing, was first published in France in 1974.
Ali Smith was born in Inverness in 1962 and she lives in Cambridge. She is the author of Free Love and Other Stories, Like,Other Stories and Other Stories, Hotel World, The Whole Story and Other Stories, The Accidental,Girl Meets Boy, The First Person and Other Stories, There but for the, Artful, How to be both, and Public library and other stories. Hotel World was shortlisted for the Booker Prize and the Orange Prize and The Accidental was shortlisted for the Man Booker and the Orange Prize. How to be both won the Baileys Prize, the Goldsmiths Prize and the Costa Novel Award and was shortlisted for the Man Booker and the Folio Prize.
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