The hearing trumpet

Leonora Carrington

earliest edition we have, 1976 City Lights Books, 1985 158 pages

Leonora Carrington, the distinguished British-born Surrealist painter is also a writer of extraordinary imagination and charm. Exact Change launched a program of reprinting her fiction with what is perhaps her best loved book. 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 a...

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Editions we hold

The Hearing Trumpet paperback · 2021 · NYRB Classics · 224 pages · 9781681374642
Hearing Trumpet paperback · 2005 · Penguin Books Ltd. · 158 pages · 9780141187990
The hearing trumpet paperback · 1996 · Exact Change · 199 pages
Das Hörrohr hardcover · 1992 · Bibliothek Suhrkamp · 218 pages
Hearing Trumpet edition · 1991 · Little, Brown Book Group Limited · 160 pages · 9781853813832
The hearing trumpet edition · 1985 · City Lights Books · 158 pages
The hearing trumpet edition · 1977 · Routledge and Kegan Paul · 158 pages
The Hearing Trumpet hardcover · 1976 · St. Martin's Press · 9780312365752

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