The Hearing Trumpet

A truly odd and unusual book from the artist Leonora Carrington. I guess she shares with Wyndham Lewis the distinction of being among the very few who were both an artist and a writer. This is a crazy ride, from plotting relatives to plots in an “Old Ladies Home”, with stops along the way for a bizarre history of an Abbess who definitely didn't play by the rules, and odd detours into unusual personal histories. But it's fun. Definitely not for the traditional reader.