{"product_id":"the-hearing-test-a-novel","title":"The Hearing Test: A Novel","description":"\u003cp\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\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhen 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAt 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.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Ingram","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48398670528735,"sku":"9781646222704","price":40.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0685\/2185\/3151\/files\/9781646222704.jpg?v=1769574779","url":"https:\/\/lamplightbooks.pro\/products\/the-hearing-test-a-novel","provider":"Lamplight Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}