A romp among the senile and if you buy that an alleged triumph of age overyouth and institutions. The trumpet of the title a gift to 92yearold MarianLeatherby f... » 

A romp among the senile and if you buy that an alleged triumph of age overyouth and institutions. The trumpet of the title a gift to 92yearold MarianLeatherby from a psychic friend enables the deaf grandmother to eavesdrop onher hostile family and hear their plans to unload her. They do and she joins abunch of other aging women at a suspicious home run by Dr. Gambit a SanctifiedPsychologist and his budgetminded wife. Marian gets to know each of the otherwomen whose personalities are actually done rather well and the mysteries ofthe place she especially fixes on a winking nun in a portrait who writtenhistory reveals faked her way to canonization. Is Carrington winking at ustoo? Probably not for this dubious group endures rebellion and cataclysm togreet a new Ice Age. You can only wonder why. Dotty despite its loftypretensions and symbolic props. Kirkus Reviews «