{"id":106,"date":"2011-04-22T01:24:59","date_gmt":"2011-04-22T08:24:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.skierpage.com\/blog\/?p=106"},"modified":"2021-04-06T02:20:55","modified_gmt":"2021-04-06T09:20:55","slug":"books-richard-fords-dispassionate-adultery-misses-his-peak","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.skierpage.com\/blog\/2011\/04\/books-richard-fords-dispassionate-adultery-misses-his-peak\/","title":{"rendered":"books: Richard Ford&#8217;s dispassionate adultery misses his peak"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"hreview-far-from-his-best\" class=\"hreview\">\n<h4 class=\"summary\">far from his best<\/h4>\n<p><abbr class=\"dtreviewed\" title=\"2011-01-11T00:00-07:00\">Jan 01, 2011<\/abbr> by <span class=\"reviewer vcard\"><span class=\"fn\">skierpage<\/span><\/span><span class=\"type\" style=\"display: none;\">product<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"item\"><a class=\"fn url\" href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/037572656X\">A Multitude of Sins<\/a><\/div>\n<p class=\"description\"><abbr class=\"rating\" title=\"2\">\u2605\u2605\u2606\u2606\u2606<\/abbr> <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Richard_Ford\">Richard Ford<\/a>&#8216;s short story <i>The Womanizer<\/i> in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.granta.com\/Magazine\/40\">book 40 of the Granta literary magazine<\/a> knocked me out, perhaps my favorite modern short story until <a href=\"\/blog\/2005\/11\/writing-god-of-war.html\">The God of War<\/a> came along , so I got this book. Alas no story in the collection comes close, they&#8217;re all variations on his lesser <i>The Shore<\/i> in Granta 50: adulterous man in a cool relationship doesn&#8217;t recognize how bad he is.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"version\" style=\"display: none;\">0.3<\/span><\/p>\n<p><small>This <a href=\"http:\/\/microformats.org\/wiki\/hreview\">hReview<\/a> brought to you by the <a href=\"http:\/\/microformats.org\/code\/hreview\/creator\">hReview Creator<\/a>.<\/small><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>far from his best Jan 01, 2011 by skierpageproduct A Multitude of Sins \u2605\u2605\u2606\u2606\u2606 Richard Ford&#8216;s short story The Womanizer in book 40 of the Granta literary magazine knocked me out, perhaps my favorite modern short story until The God &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.skierpage.com\/blog\/2011\/04\/books-richard-fords-dispassionate-adultery-misses-his-peak\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-106","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skierpage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skierpage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skierpage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.skierpage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.skierpage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=106"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.skierpage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1172,"href":"https:\/\/www.skierpage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106\/revisions\/1172"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skierpage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=106"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.skierpage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=106"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.skierpage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=106"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}