![]() mind-flaying masterpiece, held together by Carrington’s gifts of wit, imagination and suspense.Ī version of Carrington's episode in the sanatorium also found its way into a novel, The Hearing Trumpet, written in the fifties or early sixties. Her 1974 novel, The Hearing Trumpet, newly reissued, stands out as something at last truly radical, undoing not only our expectations of time and space, but of the psyche and its boundaries. Ne of the great comic novels of the twentieth century, The Hearing Trumpet reads like a spectacular reassemblage of old and new genres, the campy, illegitimate offspring of Margaret Cavendish’s romances and Robert Graves’s histories, with Thomas Pynchon's riotous paranoia spliced in to keep it limber and receptive to the political anxieties of its moment. A bitter, dark sense of humor that perfectly suits our era, although this slim novel was published almost 50 years ago. ![]() Hers is a unique voice, full of light and gravitas at once, a truly revolutionary spirit. It’s an extraordinary surrealist tale-hilarious and terrifying -and one that everyone should read. ![]()
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