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The Hearing Trumpet
Literature · 1950
Leonora Carrington
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Literature 1950

The Hearing Trumpet

late-life surrealismold-age-home magicfeminist occult romp
Author
Leonora Carrington
Year
1950
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Leonora Carrington, the distinguished British-born Surrealist painter 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 Trumpet is the story of 92-year-old Marian Leatherby, who is given the gift of...

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late-life surrealism late-life surrealismold-age-home magic
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Leonora Carrington, 1950 — The Hearing Trumpet

Leonora Carrington, the distinguished British-born Surrealist painter 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 Trumpet is the story of 92-year-old Marian Leatherby, who is given the gift of...

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Keeps memory in play with a different literature voice.
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Leonora Carrington, the distinguished British-born Surrealist painter 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 Trumpet is the story of 92-year-old Marian Leatherby, who is given the gift of...
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