{"id":558,"date":"2004-01-28T13:24:24","date_gmt":"2004-01-28T13:24:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/2004\/01\/the_book_of_ill\/"},"modified":"2004-01-28T13:24:24","modified_gmt":"2004-01-28T13:24:24","slug":"the_book_of_ill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/2004\/01\/the_book_of_ill\/","title":{"rendered":"The Book of Illusions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Paul Auster has a new novel out next week, but I&#8217;m a bit behind only having read the odd work here and there.<br \/>\nThe setup in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/0571212182\">this book<\/a> is quite good. Hector Mann is a silent era movie star who disappeared around 1929 and was never heard of again. It was assumed that he was either dead, or had given up his career. The novel&#8217;s protagonist becomes interested in his career following the tragic death of his wife and kids. Then lost films start reappearing and he writes a book on them. But then he receives a letter suggesting that Mann may indeed still be alive.<br \/>\nThe novel flows very easily, with long descriptions of Mann&#8217;s life, as well as detailed expositions of some of his films.<br \/>\nI suppose it harks back a little of William Boyd&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/0140106995\">New Confessions<\/a>, although there are no real attempts to introduce real-life characters into the story. A thoroughly worthwhile book.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>0571212182<\/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-558","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\/558","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=558"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/558\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=558"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=558"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=558"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}