{"id":1175,"date":"2020-11-16T18:18:03","date_gmt":"2020-11-16T22:18:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dennisdanvers.com\/?p=1175"},"modified":"2022-03-08T09:27:17","modified_gmt":"2022-03-08T13:27:17","slug":"new-novel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/dennisdanvers.com\/?p=1175","title":{"rendered":"New Novel"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">New Novel, The Perfect Stranger, now available from Speaking Volumes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"http:\/\/speakingvolumes.mybigcommerce.com\/the-perfect-stranger-by-dennis-danvers-print\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"668\" src=\"http:\/\/dennisdanvers.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/The-Perfect-Stranger-Promo-2-1-1024x668.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1182\" srcset=\"http:\/\/dennisdanvers.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/The-Perfect-Stranger-Promo-2-1-1024x668.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/dennisdanvers.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/The-Perfect-Stranger-Promo-2-1-300x196.jpg 300w, http:\/\/dennisdanvers.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/The-Perfect-Stranger-Promo-2-1-768x501.jpg 768w, http:\/\/dennisdanvers.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/The-Perfect-Stranger-Promo-2-1-1536x1001.jpg 1536w, http:\/\/dennisdanvers.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/The-Perfect-Stranger-Promo-2-1-2048x1335.jpg 2048w, http:\/\/dennisdanvers.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/The-Perfect-Stranger-Promo-2-1-460x300.jpg 460w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/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\u2019t 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\u2019s ghost Sandy who\u2019s 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>New Novel, The Perfect Stranger, now available from Speaking Volumes. 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 &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/dennisdanvers.com\/?p=1175\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1175","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-publication-news"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/dennisdanvers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1175","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/dennisdanvers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/dennisdanvers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"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=1175"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/dennisdanvers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1175\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1219,"href":"http:\/\/dennisdanvers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1175\/revisions\/1219"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/dennisdanvers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1175"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/dennisdanvers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1175"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/dennisdanvers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1175"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}