{"id":2509,"date":"2022-09-15T07:44:30","date_gmt":"2022-09-15T07:44:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nancyannroth.com\/?p=2509"},"modified":"2022-09-15T08:42:35","modified_gmt":"2022-09-15T08:42:35","slug":"field-green-book-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nancyannroth.com\/?p=2509","title":{"rendered":"Field Green: Book Review"},"content":{"rendered":"

It must be a memoir. \u00a0A reader — \u00a0or a fact-checker — could challenge any number of things, especially names, including the name of the author. \u00a0But there can be no doubt about the authenticity of this person’s memory or the words in which it has been recorded. It is a visual memory, dominated by colour, written by an adult who remembers his own childhood, and invents narrator, a boy of perhaps about 12, to describe it. Maybe that makes it fiction, in the sense that a person with such a guileless sense of wonder about his own surroundings would never be able to write with such clarity or precision. And that opens questions about the fiction any one of us simply inhabits, simply because we must see, hear, touch the world through our own perception. Readers of Field Green,<\/em> in glimpsing the boy-narrator’s perception of one real, specific place, in southwest England, inevitably compare his perception to what they suppose their own perception would be. The difference is literally wonderful, a gentle, clear insight into the way perception makes the world for all of us.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It must be a memoir. \u00a0A reader — \u00a0or a fact-checker — could challenge any number of things, especially names, including the name of the author. \u00a0But there can be no doubt about the...<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":2518,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"bgseo_title":"Field Green, a memory of vision","bgseo_description":"Looking at green valleys, red soil, the mysteries of birds and animals and the strange behaviour of adult human beings, the author of Field Green, a memory of vision, describes the way the world looked to him as a child. ","bgseo_robots_index":"index","bgseo_robots_follow":"follow","_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[189,221,261,247],"tags":[493,496,495,494,492],"class_list":["post-2509","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-aesthetics","category-magic","category-play","category-writing","tag-adolescence","tag-colour-names","tag-colour-terms","tag-environment","tag-field-green"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nancyannroth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2509","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nancyannroth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nancyannroth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nancyannroth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nancyannroth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2509"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/nancyannroth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2509\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2516,"href":"https:\/\/nancyannroth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2509\/revisions\/2516"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nancyannroth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2518"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nancyannroth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2509"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nancyannroth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2509"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nancyannroth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2509"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}