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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

The Hearing Trumpet is a 1974 surrealist novel by Mexican-British author Leonora Carrington. It follows the hard-of-hearing nonagenarian Marian, who is sent off to a peculiar old-age home by her family. Contents 1 Plot 2 Publication 3 Reception 3.1 Critical reception 3.2 Academic analysis 4 References Plot [ edit]

The ninety-two-year-old narrator Marian Leatherby discovers with the aid of a friend's gift of a hearing trumpet that her selfish and mean-spirited family plan to put her in a home for senile old ladies. Despite its deceptive appearance, designed, "to trick the old people's families that we led a childish and peaceful life" and the bogus religious background, Marian is mesmerised by the portrait of the "nun with a leer" which hangs over the dinner table, and entertained by the

Surrealist painter Leonora Carrington transfers her extraordinary imagination from the canvas to the page in her bizarre novel 'The Hearing Trumpet' which focuses on ninety-two-year-old Marian Leatherby who is given a hearing trumpet by her psychic friend Carmella. When Marian uses the trumpet, she discovers that her family are planning to send her to an institution, and before she knows it she is installed in an elderly people's home run by the Well of Light Brotherhood and owned by an