{"id":418,"date":"2003-09-08T21:59:17","date_gmt":"2003-09-08T21:59:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/2003\/09\/towards_the_end\/"},"modified":"2003-09-08T21:59:17","modified_gmt":"2003-09-08T21:59:17","slug":"towards_the_end","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/2003\/09\/towards_the_end\/","title":{"rendered":"Towards the End of the Morning"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In his new forward to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/0571204244\">this book<\/a>, Michael Frayn runs through some of the titles under which the book has previously been published. To be honest, I&#8217;m not sure that <i>Towards the End of the Morning<\/i> is quite the right title still, but it&#8217;s the one we&#8217;re left with.<br \/>\nSince Faber republished this book a year or two ago, I&#8217;d been meaning to read it, as it has been described as one of those essential novels about newspaper journalism &#8211; right up there with Evelyn Waugh&#8217;s Scoop (which of course I absolutely adore).<br \/>\nI don&#8217;t think I&#8217;d rate it quite as highly, although you can totally believe that it was thoroughly accurate for its time. Somehow, one doesn&#8217;t see newspapers being quite as overstaffed as that now.<br \/>\nAn entertaining novel, and very amusing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In his new forward to this book, Michael Frayn runs through some of the titles under which the book has previously been published. To be honest, I&#8217;m not sure that Towards the End of the Morning is quite the right title still, but it&#8217;s the one we&#8217;re left with. Since Faber republished this book a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"cybocfi_hide_featured_image":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-418","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/418","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=418"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/418\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=418"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=418"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=418"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}