{"id":1606,"date":"2013-07-21T18:25:46","date_gmt":"2013-07-21T23:25:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/?p=1606"},"modified":"2013-07-21T18:25:46","modified_gmt":"2013-07-21T23:25:46","slug":"book-reviewer-invokes-updike-roth-and-irving","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/2013\/07\/21\/book-reviewer-invokes-updike-roth-and-irving\/","title":{"rendered":"Book reviewer invokes Updike, Roth and Irving"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/files\/2013\/07\/Gilbert.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-1607\" alt=\"Gilbert\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/files\/2013\/07\/Gilbert.jpg\" width=\"150\" height=\"195\" \/><\/a>In his <a href=\"http:\/\/www.startribune.com\/entertainment\/books\/216048691.html\">review<\/a> of David Gilbert&#8217;s novel <strong><em>&amp; Sons<\/em><\/strong> for the Minneapolis <em>Star Tribune<\/em>, Mark Athitakis called it &#8220;a big, fat novel that&#8217;s a commentary on big, fat novels.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It has a great man at its center: A.N. Dyer, an aging author whose style mashes up John Updike, Philip Roth and John Irving,&#8221; Athitakis wrote.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The novel also celebrates the power of words\u2014Gilbert invents swaths of Dyer&#8217;s prose, which is stylistically distinct from his own. But Gilbert also exposes the shallowness of those words,&#8221; he adds, and &#8220;it often feels like a postmodern novel in realist drag.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Coincidentally, Gilbert&#8217;s first novel, <em>The Normals: A Novel<\/em> (2004), focused on a Harvard-educated protagonist. Photo: David Gilbert.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In his review of David Gilbert&#8217;s novel &amp; Sons for the Minneapolis Star Tribune, Mark Athitakis called it &#8220;a big, fat novel that&#8217;s a commentary on big, fat novels. &#8220;It has a great man at its center: A.N. Dyer, an &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/2013\/07\/21\/book-reviewer-invokes-updike-roth-and-irving\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1606","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1606","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1606"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1606\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1608,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1606\/revisions\/1608"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1606"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1606"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1606"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}