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Despite being an undeniable character study at heart, The Listeners excels as a social commentary on the power of beliefs to unite and divide people.
I feel like this is the kind of book that is better going into without much prior kn Tannahill is a playwright, filmmaker, author and theatre director. He has twice won the Governor General's Literary Award for drama: in 2014 for Age of Minority and in 2018 for Botticelli in the Fire & Sunday in Sodom. He is also the author of the novel Liminal. I would have loved this to have gone deeper, and to be a bit more subtle, especially about Claire's character.
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He turned his head towards me again and smiled, then reached over and gently pushed my face with his big paw. The Listeners is Henry James’s The Turn of the Screw mixed with Gail Tredwell’s Holy Hell, QAnon theories combined with the influx of the divine in Myla Goldberg’s Bee Season. Claire Devon hears a low hum one day. Her friends and family can’t hear it, but one of her high-school students can. In the thrall of the hum, the two become more isolated from their loved ones; they find a support group for people who also hear the sound, with catastrophic results.
Gay rights activists infiltrate Dorchester Hotel in protest over Brunei death penalty". Metro, April 6, 2019. Playwright April De Angelis joins Tom to talk about her new musical Gin Craze! Described as 'a booze soaked love ballad from the women of Gin Lane.'
The Listeners is one of those rare novels that entered my soul, rearranged my brain cells and then my world view. Tannahill writes with the heat and wisdom of a God.”
Kyle is the novel’s strongest supporting character. He’s soft, likable, and certainly less hard-headed than most. His overbearing and often aggressive mother not believing The Hum provides a believable motivation for why he’d confide in Claire.
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