{"id":138,"date":"2007-06-05T19:00:41","date_gmt":"2007-06-05T23:00:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lettersandsodas.com\/books-test\/?p=138"},"modified":"2007-06-05T19:00:41","modified_gmt":"2007-06-05T23:00:41","slug":"the-sea-the-sea-by-iris-murdochpenguin-books-2001-originally-chatto-windus-1978","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lettersandsodas.com\/books\/the-sea-the-sea-by-iris-murdochpenguin-books-2001-originally-chatto-windus-1978\/","title":{"rendered":"The Sea, the Sea by Iris MurdochPenguin Books, 2001 (originally Chatto &#038; Windus, 1978)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Now I shall abjure magic and become a hermit&#8221;: this on the second page of this book, and of its narrator&#8217;s diary, but of course nothing goes as planned. Charles Arrowby, fancying himself Prospero, can&#8217;t really give up power (or the illusion of it): the playwright-director can&#8217;t stop scripting scenes, moving people one way and another. A novel that&#8217;s beautiful and uncomfortable: beautiful descriptive passages narrated by Charles, threads of magic and myth and humor, and then Charles&#8217;s awful deluded actions: what he can see clearly and what he can&#8217;t or won&#8217;t.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Now I shall abjure magic and become a hermit&#8221;: this on the second page of this book, and of its narrator&#8217;s diary, but of course nothing goes as planned. Charles Arrowby, fancying himself Prospero, can&#8217;t really give up power (or the illusion of it): the playwright-director can&#8217;t stop scripting scenes, moving people one way and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-138","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fiction"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lettersandsodas.com\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138","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=138"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lettersandsodas.com\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lettersandsodas.com\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=138"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lettersandsodas.com\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=138"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lettersandsodas.com\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=138"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}