{"product_id":"hearing-test-book-eliza-barry-callahan-9781646222131","title":"The Hearing Test","description":"\u003cb\u003eFinalist for the Young Lions Fiction Award\u003cbr\u003e Longlisted for the Carol Shields Prize for Fiction\u003cbr\u003e A Dakota Johnson x TeaTime Book Club Pick\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e A 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\u003e When 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\u003e Through 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\u003e At once a rumination on silence and a novel on seeing, \u003ci\u003eThe 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":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":49882336166161,"sku":"CIN164622213XG","price":4.91,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":49942196289809,"sku":"CIN164622213XVG","price":5.73,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":50989200113937,"sku":"NIN9781646222131","price":22.89,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":52991878136081,"sku":"GOR014684480","price":0.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/164622213X.jpg?v=1765448036","url":"https:\/\/www.worldofbooks.com\/products\/hearing-test-book-eliza-barry-callahan-9781646222131","provider":"World of Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}