The hearing trumpet carrington5/28/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() In a bizarre retirement home Marian discovers a centuries-long plot to free the Holy Grail and return it to the goddess - just as the apocalypse is about to be unleashed.įrom bees to werewolves each turn in the narrative is impossible to predict, but Carrington writes with mordant wit, effortlessly weaving together magic, myth, and lore from the Irish tales of her childhood, Robert Graves’ The White Goddess, her adopted Mexican home, and so much more. She wrote The Hearing Trumpet when still quite young though her heroine Marian Leatherby is a 92-year-old woman with bad hearing and a small beard. ![]() While she’s best known as the genius of surreal painting, Carrington’s fiction is lively, wild and full of mythic and magical resonances. ![]()
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