{"id":1203,"date":"2022-03-08T07:31:22","date_gmt":"2022-03-08T11:31:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dennisdanvers.com\/?page_id=1203"},"modified":"2022-03-08T08:13:59","modified_gmt":"2022-03-08T12:13:59","slug":"1203-2","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/dennisdanvers.com\/?page_id=1203","title":{"rendered":"The Perfect Stranger"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">The Perfect Stranger<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/dennisdanvers.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/The-Perfect-Stranger-Promo-2-1.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">WHILE SCOURING THE ATTIC of her literary hero and dissertation subject, Gene Sanders Wilkerson, grad student Genevieve Slidell comes upon five previously unknown Wilkerson novels. In a variety of genres and nothing like his previous work, Genevieve fears the stodgy world of Wilkerson scholarship won&#8217;t understand them, and she claims them as her own, entering them in a batch of literary contests. Two win and two place.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">SHE MAKES THE ROUNDS of genre conventions to accept her honors accompanied by Wilkerson&#8217;s ghost Sandy who&#8217;s taken with the idea of vicariously enjoying being famous again through her.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">EVERYTHING IS GOING SWIIMMINGLY for the pair until they get to Literature where the whole thing blows up, only to be resolved by a clever courtroom drama in which she pleads not insanity but metafiction. A bumper car ride through the crazy business of telling stories, The Perfect Stranger explores the complex relationship between the author and her work.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Perfect Stranger WHILE SCOURING THE ATTIC of her literary hero and dissertation subject, Gene Sanders Wilkerson, grad student Genevieve Slidell comes upon five previously unknown Wilkerson novels. In a variety of genres and nothing like his previous work, Genevieve &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/dennisdanvers.com\/?page_id=1203\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":7,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1203","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/dennisdanvers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1203","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/dennisdanvers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/dennisdanvers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/dennisdanvers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/dennisdanvers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1203"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/dennisdanvers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1203\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1208,"href":"http:\/\/dennisdanvers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1203\/revisions\/1208"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/dennisdanvers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/7"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/dennisdanvers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1203"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}