Friday, 20 January 2017

The Listeners By Leni Zumas

The Listeners Read By Leni Zumas

Title:The Listeners
Author:Leni Zumas
Format:Paperback
Page:352 pages
ISBN:1935639293

Hypnotic and profoundly disquieting, The Listeners explores a far out world where a patchwork of memory, sensation, and imagination maps the flickering presence of ghosts.This is the story of a woman whose life is shaped by tragedy Quinn is thirtysomething, a survivor of a fractured and eccentric childhood marred by the death of her younger sister Twenty years later, she Hypnotic and profoundly disquieting, The Listeners explores a far out world where a patchwork of memory, sensation, and imagination maps the flickering presence of ghosts.This is the story of a woman whose life is shaped by tragedy Quinn is thirtysomething, a survivor of a fractured and eccentric childhood marred by the death of her younger sister Twenty years later, she is in the midst of a decade long slide down the other side of punk rock stardom after her successful music career was abruptly halted Sassy and smart, tough but broken, Quinn is at loose ends She develops unique strategies for coping, but no matter what twisted tactic Quinn conjures to keep her psyche intact, she cannot keep the past away The Listeners is about what lurks in the shadows and what happens when what s lurking insists on being seen.Leni Zumas portrays a world twisted on its axis by loss, in all its grotesque beauty From the first line the prose is glorious pricklingly honest and hallucinatory, a lucid dream world realized The Listeners marks the debut of a major American writer




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Posted by:Leni Zumas
Published :2016-02-20T16:48+01:00
Hypnotic and profoundly disquieting, The Listeners explores a far out world where a patchwork of memory, sensation, and imagination maps the fl
The Listeners
352 pagesLeni Zumas

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