{"product_id":"the-hearing-test-a-novel","title":"The Hearing Test: A Novel","description":"Finalist for the Young Lions Fiction Award\nLonglisted for the Carol Shields Prize for Fiction\nA Dakota Johnson x TeaTime Book Club Pick\n\nA 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\n\nWhen the narrator of The Hearing Test, 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.\n\nThrough 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.\n\nAt once a rumination on silence and a novel on seeing, The Hearing Test 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.\u003cbr\u003eASIN: 164622213X\u003cbr\u003eVSKU: DBV.164622213X.G\u003cbr\u003eCondition: Good\u003cbr\u003eAuthor\/Artist:Callahan, Eliza Barry\u003cbr\u003eBinding: Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eNote:\u003c\/b\u003e Any images shown are stock photographs and product may differ from what is shown.  \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition Notes\u003c\/b\u003e: Gently used with minimal wear on the corners and cover. A few pages may contain light highlighting or writing, but the text remains fully legible. Dust jacket may be missing, and supplemental materials like CDs or codes may not be included. May be ex-library with library markings. Ships promptly!  \u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Dream Books Co.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41448558624826,"sku":"DBV.164622213X.G","price":4.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/6011\/0138\/files\/164622213X-0.jpg?v=1780858472","url":"https:\/\/shop.dreambooksco.com\/products\/the-hearing-test-a-novel","provider":"Dream Books Co.","version":"1.0","type":"link"}