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Hanover Square

9781335000620

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Listen

In his compelling nonfiction debut, award-winning novelist Michel Faber vows to change the way you listen to music.

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Review of ‘Listen’

The word “listen” can function both as a noun —“Give a listen”—and as a verb: “Are you listening?” In Michel Faber’s first work of nonfiction, Listen: On Music, Sound and Us, he gives both uses a workout. Known for category-resistant fiction like 2002’s The Crimson Petal and the White and 2014’s The Book of Strange…

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