{"id":6370,"date":"2012-05-20T15:58:24","date_gmt":"2012-05-20T15:58:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mrsokana.wordpress.com\/?p=6370"},"modified":"2012-05-20T15:58:24","modified_gmt":"2012-05-20T15:58:24","slug":"irish-voice-irish-central-review-malarky-as-most-distinctive-novel-of-its-kind-in-a-decade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/anakanaschofield.com\/website_66900629\/2012\/05\/20\/irish-voice-irish-central-review-malarky-as-most-distinctive-novel-of-its-kind-in-a-decade\/","title":{"rendered":"Irish Voice &#038; Irish Central review Malarky as &#8220;most distinctive novel of its kind in a decade.&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>Thank you to Cahir O&#8217;Doherty who reviewed Malarky over at Irish Central and in print in the Irish Voice: (click on the extract below to read the whole review). I am glad he made the point about working class Irish female eccentrics, I painfully felt their absence from literature and hence wrote (after considerable struggle) Malarky.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<blockquote>\n<div><a href=\"http:\/\/www.irishcentral.com\/story\/artsandstyle\/tipsheet\/a-look-at-books---irish-fiction-and-non-fiction-literature-to-get-your-teeth-in-to-152023585.html\">Schofield\u2019s richest gift is for spirited dialogue which crackles with humor and energy in this blackly funny, half mad tale. Portraits of working class Irish female eccentrics are pretty thin on the ground, and for that reason alone this divertingly brilliant book is entirely worth your time.\u00a0<\/a><\/div>\n<div><a href=\"http:\/\/www.irishcentral.com\/story\/artsandstyle\/tipsheet\/a-look-at-books---irish-fiction-and-non-fiction-literature-to-get-your-teeth-in-to-152023585.html\">\u00a0<\/a><\/div>\n<div><a href=\"http:\/\/www.irishcentral.com\/story\/artsandstyle\/tipsheet\/a-look-at-books---irish-fiction-and-non-fiction-literature-to-get-your-teeth-in-to-152023585.html\">This is the most distinctive novel of its kind I\u2019ve read in a decade.\u00a0<\/a><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thank you to Cahir O&#8217;Doherty who reviewed Malarky over at Irish Central and in print in the Irish Voice: (click on the extract below to read the whole review). I am glad he made the point about working class Irish female eccentrics, I painfully felt their absence from literature and hence wrote (after considerable struggle) [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,56],"tags":[169,285,622,626,628,634,748,752,1153],"class_list":["post-6370","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anakana-schofield","category-literature","tag-anakana-schofield","tag-cahir-odoherty","tag-ireland-2","tag-irish-america","tag-irish-central","tag-irish-literature","tag-malarky","tag-malarky-novel","tag-the-irish-voice"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/anakanaschofield.com\/website_66900629\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6370","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/anakanaschofield.com\/website_66900629\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/anakanaschofield.com\/website_66900629\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anakanaschofield.com\/website_66900629\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anakanaschofield.com\/website_66900629\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6370"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/anakanaschofield.com\/website_66900629\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6370\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/anakanaschofield.com\/website_66900629\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6370"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anakanaschofield.com\/website_66900629\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6370"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anakanaschofield.com\/website_66900629\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6370"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}