{"id":9969,"date":"2013-01-13T22:22:22","date_gmt":"2013-01-13T22:22:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/anakanaschofield.com\/?p=6866"},"modified":"2013-01-13T22:22:22","modified_gmt":"2013-01-13T22:22:22","slug":"toronto-star-the-best-reading-of-2012-includes-malarky","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/anakanaschofield.com\/website_66900629\/2013\/01\/13\/toronto-star-the-best-reading-of-2012-includes-malarky\/","title":{"rendered":"Toronto Star The Best Reading of 2012 includes Malarky"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>Malarky by Anakana Schofield (Biblioasis, $19.95, 222 pages)<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Unaccountably overlooked by this year\u2019s prize juries, Anakana Schofield\u2019s ribald story of an Irish farmwife\u2019s descent into late-life cougardom and mental breakdown is a standout debut and one of the best Canadian novels of the year: the sort of book that forces you to read it over again as soon as you finish. <b>AG<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Thank you Alex Good and The Toronto Star for such a spirited inclusion and description of Malarky.<\/p>\n<p>Delighted to sit beside intriguing works like A Naked Singularity by Sergio De La Pava, Rawi Hage&#8217;s Carnival and my ole favourite buoyant Leanne Shapton! Not to mention a sister Biblioasis author Alice Petersen (All the Voices Cry).<b><br \/>\n<\/b><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thestar.com\/entertainment\/books\/article\/1307564--the-best-reading-of-2012\">Read the entire list here.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Malarky by Anakana Schofield (Biblioasis, $19.95, 222 pages) Unaccountably overlooked by this year\u2019s prize juries, Anakana Schofield\u2019s ribald story of an Irish farmwife\u2019s descent into late-life cougardom and mental breakdown is a standout debut and one of the best Canadian novels of the year: the sort of book that forces you to read it over [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[240,748,1191],"class_list":["post-9969","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-literature","tag-biblioasis","tag-malarky","tag-toronto-star-best-reading-of-2012"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/anakanaschofield.com\/website_66900629\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9969","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=9969"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/anakanaschofield.com\/website_66900629\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9969\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/anakanaschofield.com\/website_66900629\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9969"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anakanaschofield.com\/website_66900629\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9969"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anakanaschofield.com\/website_66900629\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9969"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}