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This book is, at its core, about music and the people who listen to it--your friends, your neighbors and you. A fresh approach toward our cultural and sensical relationship to sound, this melodic examination of the world of music explores two big questions: How do we listen to music and why do we listen to it in the first place? From a range of factors that shape our experience of sound--biology, age, illness and more--Listen challenges the very dichotomy between ""good"" and ""bad"" music. Lyrically woven and deeply evocative, Michel Faber's nonfiction debut reflects his lifelong passion for music of all kinds. Listen will change your relationship with the heard world.

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""Faber's writing is so dizzyingly accomplished that he is able to convince you that, just sometimes, the old stories are the best ones."" -- ""The Guardian, praise for the author""

"""Faber's writing is so dizzyingly accomplished that he is able to convince you that, just sometimes, the old stories are the best ones."" -- ""The Guardian, praise for the author"""

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Michel Faber has written eleven other books, including the highly acclaimed The Crimson Petal and the White, D (A Tale of Two Worlds), The Fahrenheit Twins and the Whitbread-short-listed novel Under the Skin. The Apple, based on characters in The Crimson Petal and the White, was published in 2006. He has also written two novellas and has won several short story awards, including the Neil Gunn, Ian St. James, and Macallan. Born in Holland and brought up in Australia, he now lives on the south coast of England.

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