{"product_id":"the-hearing-trumpet-new-york-review-books-classics","title":"The Hearing Trumpet (New York Review Books Classics)","description":"An old woman enters into a fantastical world of dreams and nightmares in this surrealist classic admired by Björk and Luis Buñuel.\n\nLeonora 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.”\u003cbr\u003eASIN: 1681374641\u003cbr\u003eVSKU: DBV.1681374641.A\u003cbr\u003eCondition: Acceptable\u003cbr\u003eAuthor\/Artist:Carrington, Leonora|Tokarczuk, Olga\u003cbr\u003eBinding: Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eNote:\u003c\/b\u003e Any images shown are stock photographs and product may differ from what is shown.  \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition Notes\u003c\/b\u003e: This copy has clearly been enjoyed—expect noticeable shelf wear and some minor creases to the cover. Binding is strong, and all pages are legible. May contain previous library markings or stamps.  \u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Dream Books Co.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41547304960058,"sku":"DBV.1681374641.A","price":12.45,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/6011\/0138\/files\/1681374641-0.jpg?v=1784690726","url":"https:\/\/shop.dreambooksco.com\/products\/the-hearing-trumpet-new-york-review-books-classics","provider":"Dream Books Co.","version":"1.0","type":"link"}