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The Listening Room

The Listening Room

Kathleen Rooney
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Fiction. The house is haunted but nobody's home. Only us chickens, standing still as sculpture while Loulou, the immortal Pomeranian, and Georgette, Magritte's guardian angel, take us on a tour of the asylum. The rooms in Kathleen Rooney's THE LISTENING ROOM are always listening, always watching. The walls have ears. The tears have eyes. Sometimes the screams are silent. Sometimes the silence is deafening. Stark and hard-edged as the paintings themselves, this novel in poems and flashes inhabits a world much like our own -- suspended in a glazed animation of doomed hope and hopeful doom, where the virtual is realer than reality, where the muse and the bemused are confused, where the funny is wedded to the sad in unholy matrimony. "Mystery," Magritte wrote late in life, "is not one of the possibilities of reality. Mystery is what is absolutely necessary for reality to exist." Take a load off. Escape is not an option. There are no windows and no doors, only holes through which the sky or an oncoming train pours in. The stairs dead end. The clouds are voodoo dolls, sweet enough to eat. But who, Georgette and Loulou forever wonder, will devour whom?
Pages
142
Format
Paperback
Release
November 12, 2019
ISBN 13
9781948510257

The Listening Room

Kathleen Rooney
0/5 ( ratings)
Read Download
Fiction. The house is haunted but nobody's home. Only us chickens, standing still as sculpture while Loulou, the immortal Pomeranian, and Georgette, Magritte's guardian angel, take us on a tour of the asylum. The rooms in Kathleen Rooney's THE LISTENING ROOM are always listening, always watching. The walls have ears. The tears have eyes. Sometimes the screams are silent. Sometimes the silence is deafening. Stark and hard-edged as the paintings themselves, this novel in poems and flashes inhabits a world much like our own -- suspended in a glazed animation of doomed hope and hopeful doom, where the virtual is realer than reality, where the muse and the bemused are confused, where the funny is wedded to the sad in unholy matrimony. "Mystery," Magritte wrote late in life, "is not one of the possibilities of reality. Mystery is what is absolutely necessary for reality to exist." Take a load off. Escape is not an option. There are no windows and no doors, only holes through which the sky or an oncoming train pours in. The stairs dead end. The clouds are voodoo dolls, sweet enough to eat. But who, Georgette and Loulou forever wonder, will devour whom?
Pages
142
Format
Paperback
Release
November 12, 2019
ISBN 13
9781948510257

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