{"id":3912,"date":"2016-02-16T18:38:46","date_gmt":"2016-02-17T01:38:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/i81.a52.mywebsitetransfer.com\/?p=3912"},"modified":"2016-03-04T18:42:51","modified_gmt":"2016-03-05T01:42:51","slug":"the-2016-dactyl-literary-fiction-award-goes-to-sea-of-hooks-by-lindsay-hill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dactylfoundation.org\/?p=3912","title":{"rendered":"The 2016 Dactyl Literary Fiction Award goes to Sea of Hooks by Lindsay Hill"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"seaofhooks\"Sea of Hooks<\/em>\u00a0(McPherson & Co) was nominated by Barbara Roether, author of This Earth You\u2019ll Come Back To<\/em>. In her review<\/a> of Hill’s unusual novel, Roether writes, “There is a paradox that floats through the\u00a0Sea of Hooks<\/em>, which is that the experience of reading it is almost the opposite of how it is written. That is to say, while the story is told in its short collage-like segments, their effect is an almost seamless classical narrative. The way sections move from multiple perspectives, dreamtime, real-time, then meld together with such cohesive and penetrating storytelling, is a testament to the author\u2019s insightful eye for detail and character.”<\/p>\n

We can say that\u00a0Sea of Hooks<\/em>\u00a0 is a long narrative prose poem, which may be the essence of what it is to be a literary fiction novel.
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