{"id":2167,"date":"2016-03-18T17:35:54","date_gmt":"2016-03-19T01:35:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/?p=2167"},"modified":"2016-03-18T17:35:54","modified_gmt":"2016-03-19T01:35:54","slug":"review-satin-island","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/?p=2167","title":{"rendered":"Review: Satin Island"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tom MacCarthy&#8217;s <em>Satin Island<\/em> is a very beautiful and evocative work.\u00a0 His prose captures images, ideas, interactions &#8211; many powerful moments one encounters in moving through our interconnected world &#8211; with clarity and dynamism.\u00a0 Reading <em>Satin Island<\/em> is a tour of the time from an engaged guide.<\/p>\n<p>What <em>Satin Island<\/em> didn&#8217;t give me was enough of a structure for those moments to cohere into something that MacCarthy wanted to tell me about.\u00a0 Of course that undersells the work.\u00a0 By his selection and juxtaposition of images and incidents, MacCarthy forms a whole.\u00a0 I&#8217;m sure Joyceans will enjoy pulling on threads of subtext to get any message that MacCarthy is sending.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m not much of a Joycean.\u00a0 I do like rich works of literature, but I do prefer a more explicit literary structure around it.\u00a0 Many of the moments are thought provoking or plain breathtaking, so <em>Island<\/em> may be worth a trip.\u00a0 But don&#8217;t tell them I sent you.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tom MacCarthy&#8217;s Satin Island is a very beautiful and evocative work.\u00a0 His prose captures images, ideas, interactions &#8211; many powerful moments one encounters in moving through our interconnected world &#8211; with clarity and dynamism.\u00a0 Reading Satin Island is a tour of the time from an engaged guide. What Satin Island didn&#8217;t give me was enough [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2167","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reviews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2167","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2167"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2167\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2168,"href":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2167\/revisions\/2168"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2167"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2167"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2167"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}