{"id":1751,"date":"2013-03-12T21:19:15","date_gmt":"2013-03-12T15:19:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/williamjcobb.com\/blog\/?p=1751"},"modified":"2013-03-12T21:19:15","modified_gmt":"2013-03-12T15:19:15","slug":"review-of-jim-craces-harvest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/williamjcobb.com\/blog\/index.php\/2013\/03\/12\/review-of-jim-craces-harvest\/","title":{"rendered":"Review of Jim Crace&#039;s &quot;Harvest&quot;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So my review of Jim Crace&#8217;s new novel, <em>Harvest<\/em>, appeared Sunday in the <em>Dallas Morning News<\/em>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/entertainment\/books\/20130309-book-review-harvest-by-jim-crace.ece\">here<\/a>. I liked the book, mainly for its style more than its subject or story, which was taken to task in an interesting review in <em>The New Republic<\/em>, <a href=\"http:\/\/http:\/\/www.newrepublic.com\/article\/112513\/jim-craces-harvest-reviewed-alex-nazaryan\">here<\/a>. (Note: I only read that review after mine had been published, maintaining a policy of not reading reviews of books I&#8217;m reviewing until after mine is done, so I won&#8217;t be corrupted.) Apparently Crace has threatened to &#8220;retire,&#8221; though that&#8217;s kind of amusing, seeming somewhat overwrought and precious. But that doesn&#8217;t change my mind about the book. It&#8217;s graceful and memorable in its own way.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1755\" title=\"crace-jim-harvest-cover-022613-marg\" src=\"http:\/\/williamjcobb.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/crace-jim-harvest-cover-022613-marg.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"260\" height=\"379\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So my review of Jim Crace&#8217;s new novel, Harvest, appeared Sunday in the Dallas Morning News, here. I liked the book, mainly for its style more than its subject or story, which was taken to task in an interesting review &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/williamjcobb.com\/blog\/index.php\/2013\/03\/12\/review-of-jim-craces-harvest\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,1,38],"tags":[55,85,95],"class_list":["post-1751","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-uncategorized","category-writing","tag-book-reviewing","tag-fiction-writing","tag-good-fiction"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/williamjcobb.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1751","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/williamjcobb.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/williamjcobb.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/williamjcobb.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/williamjcobb.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1751"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/williamjcobb.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1751\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/williamjcobb.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1751"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/williamjcobb.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1751"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/williamjcobb.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1751"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}