{"id":4555,"date":"2017-12-07T01:06:36","date_gmt":"2017-12-07T08:06:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.library.ualberta.ca\/ualbertapressblog\/2010\/01\/05\/featured-reviews-of-nuala-a-fable\/"},"modified":"2018-12-21T12:52:04","modified_gmt":"2018-12-21T19:52:04","slug":"featured-reviews-of-nuala-a-fable","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.library.ualberta.ca\/ualbertapressblog\/2017\/12\/07\/featured-reviews-of-nuala-a-fable\/","title":{"rendered":"Featured Reviews of &#8220;Nuala: A Fable&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"product_reviews_text\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.uap.ualberta.ca\/titles\/869-9781772122961-nuala\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-7850\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.library.ualberta.ca\/ualbertapressblog\/2018\/09\/9781772122961.jpg?w=468\" alt=\"\" width=\"122\" height=\"209\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"product_reviews_text\">&#8220;&#8230; Beach&#8217;s spare, poetic prose swept me away from the present world of mad dictators into a magical timeless realm like the sweet books of my childhood. I was transported and found myself rationing each page near the end, because I did not want to leave Beach&#8217;s fictional world.\u00a0Highly recommended, even if you don&#8217;t like puppets, poetry or fables. It&#8217;s all about the craft and the way Beach spins a sharp sensuous story&#8230;&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"product_reviews_author\">Bruce Hunter,\u00a0Goodreads<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p class=\"product_reviews_text\">While it is a highly original tale, many of its themes\u2014alienation, the search for understanding and companionship, and struggle for independence\u2014are universal\u2026&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"product_reviews_author\">Lana Michelin,\u00a0Red Deer Advocate<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p class=\"product_reviews_text\">&#8220;From the start, the book has the power to take a reader on a journey that is wonderfully image-laden&#8230;. [You] get the feeling that every single word has been meticulously chosen&#8230; It&#8217;s always polished but crackles with authenticity.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"product_reviews_author\">Mark Weber,\u00a0Red Deer Express<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p class=\"product_reviews_text\"># 1 on Edmonton Fiction Bestsellers list, March 19, 2017<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p class=\"product_reviews_text\"># 2 on Saskatoon Fiction Bestsellers list, April 8, 2017<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p class=\"product_reviews_text\"># 7 on Edmonton Fiction Bestsellers list, April 23, 2017<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p class=\"product_reviews_text\"># 7 on Edmonton Fiction Bestsellers list, September 24, 2017<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;&#8230; Beach&#8217;s spare, poetic prose swept me away from the present world of mad dictators into a magical timeless realm like the sweet books of my childhood. I was transported and found myself rationing each page near the end, because I did not want to leave Beach&#8217;s fictional world.\u00a0Highly recommended, even if you don&#8217;t like [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[110,142],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4555","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-reviews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.library.ualberta.ca\/ualbertapressblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4555","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.library.ualberta.ca\/ualbertapressblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.library.ualberta.ca\/ualbertapressblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.library.ualberta.ca\/ualbertapressblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/39"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.library.ualberta.ca\/ualbertapressblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4555"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/sites.library.ualberta.ca\/ualbertapressblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4555\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5322,"href":"https:\/\/sites.library.ualberta.ca\/ualbertapressblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4555\/revisions\/5322"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.library.ualberta.ca\/ualbertapressblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4555"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.library.ualberta.ca\/ualbertapressblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4555"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.library.ualberta.ca\/ualbertapressblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4555"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}