{"id":1149,"date":"2010-10-17T21:04:46","date_gmt":"2010-10-18T04:04:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rickyopaterny.com\/blog\/?p=1149"},"modified":"2010-10-17T21:04:46","modified_gmt":"2010-10-18T04:04:46","slug":"the-great-review-of-great-house","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gen-o.com\/blog\/2010\/10\/17\/the-great-review-of-great-house\/","title":{"rendered":"The great review of Great House"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Rebecca Goldstein <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2010\/10\/17\/books\/review\/Goldstein-t.html\" target=\"_blank\">reviews<\/a> <em>Great House <\/em>in today&#8217;s New York Times Book Review.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>What gives the quickening of life to this elegiac novel and takes the place of the unlikely laughter of \u201cThe History of Love\u201d? The feat is achieved through exquisitely chosen sensory details that reverberate with emotional intensity. So, for example, here is George Weisz describing how, when his clients speak of their lives before the war, \u201cbetween their words I see the way the light fell across the wooden floor. . . . I see his mother\u2019s legs move about the kitchen, and the crumbs the housekeeper\u2019s broom missed.\u201d Those crumbs are an artist\u2019s true touch. They demonstrate how Krauss is able, despite the formidable remove of the central characters and the mournfulness of their telling, to ground \u201cGreat House\u201d in the shock of immediacy.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rebecca Goldstein reviews Great House in today&#8217;s New York Times Book Review. What gives the quickening of life to this elegiac novel and takes the place of the unlikely laughter of \u201cThe History of Love\u201d? The feat is achieved through exquisitely chosen sensory details that reverberate with emotional intensity. So, for example, here is George [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,1],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gen-o.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1149"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gen-o.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gen-o.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gen-o.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gen-o.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1149"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/gen-o.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1149\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1151,"href":"https:\/\/gen-o.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1149\/revisions\/1151"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gen-o.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1149"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gen-o.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1149"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gen-o.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1149"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}