![]() 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. 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. If you’d like to be added to our reading group, please send us your name, email and phone number. ![]() A link to the Zoom meeting will be sent either the day before or on the morning of the meeting. Books are in stock now and reading group books purchased at the store receive a 15% discount. Our next selection is The Hearing Trumpet by Leonora Carrington. The Book Beat reading group will meet live at Zoom online on Wednesday May 26, at 7 PM. ![]() “Her book deals engagingly with Carrington’s short-lived reunion with a still-smitten Ernst in Lisbon and New York, her two marriages, and in particular her friendship in Mexico City with Remedios Varo, the painter and wife of the surrealist poet Benjamin Péret.” - The Guardian If you’d like to read further, we have UK copies in stock The Surreal Life of Leonora Carrington by Joanna Moorehead. ![]()
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