{"product_id":"9781646222704","title":"The Hearing Test","description":"\u003cb\u003eA young woman reorients her relationship to the world in the wake of sudden deafness in this mesmerizing debut novel for readers of Rachel Cusk, Clarice Lispector, and Fleur Jaeggy\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWhen the narrator of \u003ci\u003eThe Hearing Test\u003c\/i\u003e, an artist in her late twenties, awakens one morning to a deep drone in her right ear, she is diagnosed with Sudden Deafness, but is offered no explanation for its cause. As the specter of total deafness looms, she keeps a record of her year—a score of estrangement and enchantment, of luck and loneliness, of the chance occurrences to which she becomes attuned—while living alone in a New York City studio apartment with her dog.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThrough a series of fleeting and often humorous encounters—with neighbors, an ex-lover, doctors, strangers, family members, faraway friends, and with the lives and works of artists, filmmakers, musicians, and philosophers—making meaning  becomes a form of consolation and curiosity, a form of survival. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAt once a rumination on silence and a novel on seeing,\u003ci\u003e The Hearing Test\u003c\/i\u003e is a work of vitalizing intellect and playfulness which marks the arrival of a major new literary writer with a rare command of form, compression, and intent.","brand":"Eliza Barry Callahan","offers":[{"title":"Paperback \/ softback Trade paperback (US)","offer_id":46249770680532,"sku":"9781646222704","price":21.0,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1000\/9208\/files\/BNCImageAPI_e6652cd8-a50c-45f4-b3b5-493dce89ec05.jpg?v=1745862288","url":"https:\/\/penguinshop.ca\/products\/9781646222704","provider":"Penguin Shop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}