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The Hearing Trumpet: Available Copies
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The Hearing Trumpet (New York Review Books Classics) by Carrington, Leonora
Seller: -OnTimeBooks- (Phoenix, AZ, U.S.A.)
Used Book—Condition: Very Good
Book Price: $12.55
Shipping: Free!
TOTAL Cost: $12.55
Gently read. May have name of previous ownership, or ex-library edition. Binding tight; spine straight and smooth, with no creasing; covers clean and crisp. Minimal signs of handling or shelving. 100% GUARANTEE! Shipped with delivery confirmation, if you're not satisfied with purchase please return item! Ships USPS Media Mail
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Seller: Goodwill of Greater Milwaukee and Chicago (Racine, WI, U.S.A.)
Used Book—Condition: Good
Book Price: $11.85
Shipping: $3.00
TOTAL Cost: $14.85
Book is considered to be in good or better condition. The actual cover image may not match the stock photo. Hard cover books may show signs of wear on the spine, cover or dust jacket. Paperback book may show signs of wear on spine or cover as well as having a slight bend, curve or creasing to it. Book should have minimal to no writing inside and no highlighting. Pages should be free of tears or creasing. Stickers should not be present on cover or elsewhere, and any CD or DVD expected with the book is included. Book is not a former library copy.
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The Hearing Trumpet (Paperback) by Leonora Carrington
Paperback
ISBN: 9781681374642
Publisher: New York Review Books, New York (2021)
Seller: Grand Eagle Retail (Bensenville, IL, U.S.A.) New Book
Book Price: $17.99
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TOTAL Cost: $17.99
Paperback. An old woman enters into a fantastical world of dreams and nightmares in this surrealist classic admired by Bjoerk and Luis Bunuel.Leonora 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 earths 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. Ninety-two-year-old Marian Leatherby is given the gift of a hearing trumpet only to discover that family is saying 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. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.
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Seller: Rarewaves.com USA (London, LONDO, United Kingdom) New Book
Book Price: $18.00
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TOTAL Cost: $18.00
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. It is also the scene of a mysterious murder. Occult twin to Alice in Wonderland, The Hearing Trumpet is a classic of fantastic literature that has been translated and celebrated throughout the world.
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The Hearing Trumpet (Paperback) by Leonora Carrington
Paperback
ISBN: 9780141187990
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd, London (2005)
Seller: Grand Eagle Retail (Bensenville, IL, U.S.A.) New Book
Book Price: $18.01
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TOTAL Cost: $18.01
Paperback. 'Reading The Hearing Trumpet liberates us from the miserable reality of our days' Luis BunuelThe 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. It is also the scene of a mysterious murder. Occult twin to Alice in Wonderland, The Hearing Trumpet is a classic of fantastic literature that has been translated and celebrated throughout the world. One of the first things ninety-two-year-old Marian Leatherby overhears when she is given an ornate hearing trumpet is her family plotting to commit her to an institution. Soon, she finds herself trapped in a sinister retirement home, where the elderly must inhabit buildings shaped like igloos and birthday cakes. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.
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Seller: medimops (Berlin, Germany)
Used Book—Condition: Very Good
Book Price: $15.97
Shipping: $11.40
TOTAL Cost: $27.37
Gut/Very good: Buch bzw. Schutzumschlag mit wenigen Gebrauchsspuren an Einband, Schutzumschlag oder Seiten. / Describes a book or dust jacket that does show some signs of wear on either the binding, dust jacket or pages.
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Seller: Kennys Bookshop and Art Galleries Ltd. (Galway, GY, Ireland) New Book
Book Price: $15.43
Shipping: $11.97
TOTAL Cost: $27.40
2005. Paperback. One of the first things ninety-two-year-old Marian Leatherby overhears when she is given an ornate hearing trumpet is her family plotting to commit her to an institution. But when another resident secretly hands Marian a book recounding the life of the Abbess, a joyous and brilliantly surreal adventure begins to unfold. Series: Penguin Modern Classics. Num Pages: 176 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 129 x 11. Weight in Grams: 138. . . . . .
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Seller: Kennys Bookstore (Olney, MD, U.S.A.) New Book
Book Price: $17.20
Shipping: $10.50
TOTAL Cost: $27.70
2005. Paperback. One of the first things ninety-two-year-old Marian Leatherby overhears when she is given an ornate hearing trumpet is her family plotting to commit her to an institution. But when another resident secretly hands Marian a book recounding the life of the Abbess, a joyous and brilliantly surreal adventure begins to unfold. Series: Penguin Modern Classics. Num Pages: 176 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 129 x 11. Weight in Grams: 138. . . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland.
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The Hearing Trumpet by Leonora Carrington
Paperback
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Publisher: City Lights Books ()
Seller: Dunaway Books (St. Louis, MO, U.S.A.)
Used Book—Condition: Very Good
Book Price: $25.00
Shipping: $4.00
TOTAL Cost: $29.00
Small diagonal crease to the upper right corner of the wrap front panel. Minor rubbing to the edges and corners. Binding is fine. Pages are very clean and bright with no markings. Special publisher.
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