{"product_id":"the-hearing-trumpet","title":"The Hearing Trumpet","description":"\u003cp\u003eAn old woman enters into a fantastical world of dreams and nightmares in this surrealist classic admired by Björk and Luis Buñuel.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLeonora 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.\"\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Lucky's Books and Comics","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47981673644163,"sku":"9781681374642","price":24.95,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0373\/3795\/6483\/files\/9781681374642.jpg?v=1787609708","url":"https:\/\/luckys.ca\/products\/the-hearing-trumpet","provider":"Lucky's Books and Comics","version":"1.0","type":"link"}