{"id":168,"date":"2006-03-20T04:21:23","date_gmt":"2006-03-20T09:21:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/s265039441.onlinehome.us\/philpaine\/?p=168"},"modified":"2018-08-23T16:13:16","modified_gmt":"2018-08-23T20:13:16","slug":"14616-%c2%a0%c2%a0-tim-wynne-jones-a-thief-in-the-house-of-memory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/?p=168","title":{"rendered":"14616.&nbsp;(Tim Wynne-Jones) A Thief in the House of Memory"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/?attachment_id=9717\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-9717\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft  wp-image-9717\" src=\"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/03\/06-03-20-READ-14616.-Tim-Wynne-Jones-A-Thief-in-the-House-of-Memory.jpg\" alt=\"06-03-20 READ 14616. (Tim Wynne-Jones) A Thief in the House of Memory\" width=\"206\" height=\"284\"><\/a>Tim Wynne-Jones lives in the pic\u00adturesque town of Perth, Ontario, about an hour\u2019s dri\u00adve from Ottawa. A small-town Cana\u00addian sen\u00adsi\u00adbil\u00adity is the frame\u00adwork for this nov\u00adel, writ\u00adten for teenagers, but it is not the nos\u00adtal\u00adgia of Leacock\u2019s <em>Sun\u00adshine Sketech\u00ades<\/em> by a long\u00adshot. It is clos\u00ader to the haunt\u00aded past and stiffled hopes in Sher\u00adwood Anderson\u2019s <em>Wines\u00adburg Ohio<\/em>. <em>A Thief in the House of Mer\u00admory<\/em> is <em>beau\u00adti\u00adfully<\/em> writ\u00adten. The prose style is exquis\u00adite, full of inven\u00adtion and word\u00adplay, and the dia\u00adlog feels true. Despite the dis\u00adturb\u00ading and depress\u00ading sub\u00adject mat\u00adter, the book is not just the prod\u00aduct of facile cyn\u00adi\u00adcism. It is about con\u00adfronting the past and deal\u00ading with it, and the deci\u00adsion to know the truth even if it brings you pain.&nbsp;Wynne-Jones is clear\u00adly writ\u00ading intel\u00adli\u00adgent, mov\u00ading, and tech\u00adni\u00adcally superb fic\u00adtion for the \u201cyoung adult\u201d mar\u00adket, and the Toron\u00adto pub\u00adlisher Dou\u00adglas <span class=\"amp\">&amp;<\/span> McIn\u00adtyre is not putting obsta\u00adcles in his way. I will eager\u00adly inves\u00adti\u00adgate his oth\u00ader books, and the publisher.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tim Wynne-Jones lives in the pic\u00adturesque town of Perth, Ontario, about an hour\u2019s dri\u00adve from Ottawa. A small-town Cana\u00addian sen\u00adsi\u00adbil\u00adity is the frame\u00adwork for this nov\u00adel, writ\u00adten for teenagers, but it is not the nos\u00adtal\u00adgia of Leacock\u2019s Sun\u00adshine Sketech\u00ades&nbsp;by&nbsp;\u2026<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/?p=168\">Read more \u00bb<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wp_typography_post_enhancements_disabled":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[946,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-168","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-b-reading","category-bu-reading-2006"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=168"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9719,"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168\/revisions\/9719"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=168"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=168"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=168"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}