{"id":124,"date":"2007-02-26T21:38:59","date_gmt":"2007-02-27T01:38:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lettersandsodas.com\/books-test\/?p=124"},"modified":"2007-02-26T21:38:59","modified_gmt":"2007-02-27T01:38:59","slug":"tanglewreck-by-jeanette-wintersonbloomsbury-2006","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lettersandsodas.com\/books\/tanglewreck-by-jeanette-wintersonbloomsbury-2006\/","title":{"rendered":"Tanglewreck by Jeanette WintersonBloomsbury, 2006"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Lighthousekeeping<\/em> is the story of an orphan named Silver. <em>Tanglewreck<\/em> is also the story of an orphan named Silver. It&#8217;s a story about duty, hope, multiplicity, possibility. Possibility: the Silver of <em>Tanglewreck<\/em> as the Silver of <em>Lighthousekeeping<\/em>, elsewhere in the multiverse? &#8220;There are Lighthousekeepers and Lock Keepers, and Housekeepers [&#8230;] and there are Timekeepers.&#8221; (p 397). This is a story about time, a clock called the Timekeeper and Silver&#8217;s quest to find it: it&#8217;s a story about how the future isn&#8217;t set, about the different paths that fork off. (It&#8217;s also a story about love.) <em>Tanglewreck<\/em> is a smart book: it quotes &#8220;To His Coy Mistress&#8221; and literalizes Schr&ouml;dinger&#8217;s cat, refers to Heisenberg&#8217;s Uncertainty Principle, namedrops historical figures from John Dee to Stephen Hawking. The story&#8217;s archetypal but veers into clich&eacute;&#8212;a reference to <em>The Lord of the Rings<\/em> that&#8217;s too heavy-handed, the nasty villainess and her experiments on children (too much like Philip Pullman&#8217;s Mrs. Coulter? but then of course, there&#8217;s always a serpent, always a temptress), but past the middle of the book Winterson&#8217;s prose turns fluid, more like her books for adults (because, after all, the story&#8217;s about familiar things: love, multiplicity, possibility), and reading it is, overall, a delight.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lighthousekeeping is the story of an orphan named Silver. Tanglewreck is also the story of an orphan named Silver. It&#8217;s a story about duty, hope, multiplicity, possibility. Possibility: the Silver of Tanglewreck as the Silver of Lighthousekeeping, elsewhere in the multiverse? &#8220;There are Lighthousekeepers and Lock Keepers, and Housekeepers [&#8230;] and there are Timekeepers.&#8221; (p [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-124","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-young-adultchildrens"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lettersandsodas.com\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lettersandsodas.com\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lettersandsodas.com\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lettersandsodas.com\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lettersandsodas.com\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=124"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lettersandsodas.com\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lettersandsodas.com\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=124"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lettersandsodas.com\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=124"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lettersandsodas.com\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=124"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}