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THE LISTENING ROOM
A Novel of Georgette and Loulou Magritte
2018
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4.60
Average Rating
150
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It’s an ekphrastic novel-in-prose poems and flash fictions about the life and work of René Magritte, told through the alternating perspectives of his wife Georgette, his lifelong companion and frequent model, and their shared series of Pomeranian dogs, all called Loulou.
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4.60
Number of Ratings
10
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Author

Kathleen Rooney
Kathleen Rooney
Author · 12 books

Kathleen Rooney is a founding editor of Rose Metal Press, a publisher of literary work in hybrid genres, and a founding member of Poems While You Wait, a team of poets and their typewriters who compose commissioned poetry on demand. She is the author, most recently, of the novels Lillian Boxfish Takes a Walk and Cher Ami and Major Whittlesey. Her latest collection Where Are the Snows, winner of the XJ Kennedy Prize, is coming out from Texas Review Press in September 2022. She teaches at DePaul and her next novel, From Dust to Stardust, will be published by Lake Union Press in Fall of 2023.

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