The Listeners

The Listeners
Jordan Tannahill
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Paperback
h198 x 129mm - 304pg
9 Jun 2022 UK
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9780008445430
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A masterful speculative novel exploring the fine lines between faith, conspiracy, and mania in contemporary America. While lying in bed next to her husband one night, Claire Devon hears a low hum that he cannot. And, it seems, no one else can either. This innocuous noise begins causing Claire headaches, nosebleeds, insomnia, gradually upsetting the balance of her life, though no obvious source or medical cause can be found. When she discovers that a student of hers can also hear the hum, the two strike up an unlikely and intimate friendship. Finding themselves increasingly isolated from their families and colleagues, they fall in with a disparate group of neighbours who also perceive the sound. What starts as a neighbourhood self-help group gradually transforms into something far more extreme and with far-reaching, devastating consequences. The Listeners is an exhilarating and erotic novel exploring the seduction of the wild and unknowable, the human search for the transcendent, the rise of conspiracy culture in the West, and the desire for community and connection in our increasingly polarised times.
Praise for The Listeners:' The Listeners starts as a little hum in your ear and ends up blowing the top off your head. A deeply plausible, funny, horrifying story of a journey right off the rails' Emma Donoghue, author of The Pull of the StarsPraise for Liminal:' Moves at a breakneck pace, combining science, philosophy, spirituality, and pop culture . . . Readers may never think about living or dying the same way again' This Magazine' Tannahill is a good writer, a natural storyteller with a strong sense of narrative rhythm as well as the ability to launch into almost mystical flights of poetic vision' Toronto Star' Authors such as Ben Lerner, Rachel Cusk, and Karl Ove Knausgaard, among others, are showing their exhaustion with plot, opting to be candid, probing, philosophical, and discursive at a micro-level on the page. Toronto playwright Jordan Tannahill' s lushly intelligent debut novel, Liminal, is an exciting addition to this school . . . Liminal captures something illuminating and undefinable about the present moment . . . A real jaw-dropping intellectual feat . . . A rich and unusual story' Globe and Mail' Liminal is generous, bold, unabashedly emotional, and really smart - an ultra-engaging portrait of the artist, and portal to the art. ' Ann-Marie Macdonald, author of The Way the Crow Flies' A raw love letter to a mother, and a blazing meditation on love, death, and dying, Jordan Tannahill' s Liminal is a full-fledged unleashing from a major literary talent' Anosh Irani, author of The Parcel' This book has everything: a road trip, coming of age, philosophy, mythology, meditation on the nature of self, and the tender love of a son for his mother all infused with uncommon emotional intelligence' Teva Harrison, author of In-Between Days
Jordan Tannahill is a Canadian living in London and is already an internationally acclaimed playwright. Two of his plays have won a Governor General' s Literary Award, Canada' s highest state honour for literature. He has written one previous novel, LIMINAL which was published in Canada by House of Anansi and was named one of the best Canadian novels of 2018 by CBC Books. Inspired by real-life occurrences and by his own upbringing in a Nichiren Buddhist household THE LISTENERS will be Tannahill' s debut novel in the UK and America.
Status: Active
ISBN-13: 9780008445430
Published: 9 Jun 2022
Published In: United Kingdom
Imprint: Fourth Estate
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
Format: Paperback
Height: 198mm
Width: 129mm
Spine: 19mm
Weight: 270g
Pages: 304

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