{"id":885,"date":"2013-02-08T09:54:20","date_gmt":"2013-02-08T09:54:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nabourke.com\/?p=885"},"modified":"2013-06-04T06:37:15","modified_gmt":"2013-06-04T06:37:15","slug":"the-first-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.perilousadventures.net\/blog\/?p=885","title":{"rendered":"The first review"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This morning I woke in the glorious and incredibly welcoming city of York. After a lovely breakfast in the hotel dining room I came upstairs and guess what had landed in my inbox? The first review of <em>Rupetta<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Rick Kleffel over at bookotron says:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Contemporary author N. A. Sulway&#8217;s striking novel &#8216;Rupetta&#8217; is a powerful, sweeping but compact epic vision that slips through genres &#8230;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Kleffel&#8217;s review includes a discussion of the limitations of genre as a way to select books for reading, and of the ways writers &#8220;annihilate genre boundaries &#8230; on a regular basis&#8221;. The review also includes discussion of Junot Diaz&#8217;s <em>The Brief, Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao<\/em>, F Paul Wilson&#8217;s <em>Cold City<\/em>, Jim Crace&#8217;s <em>Harvest<\/em>, and Thomas Owen&#8217;s <em>The House of Oracles and other stories.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>You can read the whole review <a href=\"http:\/\/bookotron.com\/agony\/news\/2013\/02-04-13-news.htm#n020613\" target=\"_blank\">online here &#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This morning I woke in the glorious and incredibly welcoming city of York. 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