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Title: The Hearing Trumpet by Leonora Carrington, Pablo Weisz Carrington, Paul W. Carrington ISBN: 1-878972-19-7 Publisher: Exact Change Pub. Date: August, 1996 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $15.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 5 (5 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: The most amazing book i've ever read
Comment: Since JRR Tolkien's The Lord Of The Rings, I don't think I've come across another work that has so enraptured me. It is truly a modern fairy tale, and one that can easily be re-read a hundred times over. (It's been awhile since I read this and I don't have my book with me, but I'll try to be as accurate as I can with the names of the characters.) You can tell from the start that this isn't your conventional fantasy romp: the heroine Marian Leatherby isn't a youthful, beautiful princess but an old lady with family problems. She doesn't journey to distant lands to find magic and adventure; instead, all the action takes place in an old folks home. Along the way Leonora Carrington slyly pokes fun at patriarchal myths and traditions. 'Galahad', a name familiar to us from Arthurian legends, reappears in THT not as some dashing, valiant do-gooder but, if my memory serves me correctly, as Marian's ineffectual, unpleasant son. So much for modern chivalry, Carrington seems to say. Yet while she debunks these old legends, she creates new ones, drawing upon mythology and fantasy alike to people her story with strong female characters and ancient Goddesses. Whimsical, magical, entertaining, thought-provoking. I won't say much more, you'll have to read it for yourself to find out just how excellent it is. And yes, do put your own copy under lock and key!!
Rating: 5
Summary: like a wild fairy tale
Comment: Leonora Carrington is awsome as an author - she doesn't let her imagination be chained by convention or by anything. What a vivid, strange world these characters live in. Marian (the main character) is awsome herself; full of character and spirit. Everyone I've lent this book to has enjoyed it. If it has a fault, it's that it ends too soon.
Rating: 5
Summary: Old Ladies, the Apocalypse(?), and Death by Chocolate!!!
Comment: The Hearing Trumpet is deliciously funny and irreverent; Surrealist painter/author Leonora Carrington's apocalyptic tale is filled with gems such as "Darling, don't be philosophical, it doesn't suit you, it makes your nose red." Filtered through the eyes and ears of Marian Leatherby, a 92 year-old inmate of a Spanish old folk's home (run by the cultlike Well of Light Brotherhood), the tongue-in-cheek tone and hilarious chracters make this book a refreshing surprise. Every copy I've ever owned has been stolen! From the first paragraph, the reader will see that Marian Leatherby and her friends are NOT LOL's (Little Old Ladies), and Leonora Carrington is not your average author. (She's truly hilarious, for one!) Read this book for its wacky imagery (a trompe l'oeil "furnished" tower, a pair of murdering religious quacks, termite engineering, wigs, marijuana-stuffed needlepoint pillows, and a 92 year-old lady swarming down ten stories of rope, for starters), then hide your copy from your well-read friends...or buy them their own!
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Title: Unexpected Journeys by Janet A. Kaplan ISBN: 0789206277 Publisher: Abbeville Press, Inc. Pub. Date: April, 2000 List Price(USD): $29.95 |
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Title: The Seventh Horse and Other Tales by Leonora Carrington ISBN: 0525483845 Publisher: E P Dutton Pub. Date: October, 1988 List Price(USD): $7.95 |
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Title: Between Lives: An Artist and Her World by Dorothea Tanning ISBN: 0393050408 Publisher: W.W. Norton & Company Pub. Date: August, 2001 List Price(USD): $26.95 |
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Title: Surrealist Women : An International Anthology (The Surrealist Revolution Series) by Penelope Rosemont ISBN: 029277088X Publisher: Univ of Texas Press Pub. Date: 1998 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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Title: Women Artists and the Surrealist Movement by Whitney Chadwick ISBN: 0500276226 Publisher: Thames & Hudson Pub. Date: July, 1991 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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