{"id":2265,"date":"2014-06-26T13:46:56","date_gmt":"2014-06-26T13:46:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/torontowots.wordpress.com\/?p=2265"},"modified":"2015-08-13T15:12:48","modified_gmt":"2015-08-13T15:12:48","slug":"what-the-word-on-the-street-is-reading-emberton","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/thewordonthestreet.ca\/toronto\/what-the-word-on-the-street-is-reading-emberton\/","title":{"rendered":"What The Word On The Street is Reading: Emberton"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This week our\u00a0Programming Assistant, Cindy Pang,\u00a0has been reading <em>Emberton. <\/em>This novel was\u00a0written by\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.thewordonthestreet.ca\/wots\/toronto\/author\/peter-norman\">Peter Norman<\/a>, and published in March by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.douglas-mcintyre.com\/book\/emberton\">Douglas &amp; McIntyre<\/a>. Peter Norman will be appearing at this year&#8217;s festival on September 21st, reading at the Great Books Marquee.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/torontowots.files.wordpress.com\/2014\/06\/emberton-cover_dm2014-less.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-2266 size-thumbnail aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/torontowots.files.wordpress.com\/2014\/06\/emberton-cover_dm2014-less.jpg?w=96\" alt=\"Emberton Cover_D&amp;M2014 (less)\" width=\"96\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"http:\/\/thewordonthestreet.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2014\/06\/emberton-cover_dm2014-less.jpg 1250w, http:\/\/thewordonthestreet.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2014\/06\/emberton-cover_dm2014-less-193x300.jpg 193w, http:\/\/thewordonthestreet.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2014\/06\/emberton-cover_dm2014-less-659x1024.jpg 659w, http:\/\/thewordonthestreet.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2014\/06\/emberton-cover_dm2014-less-161x250.jpg 161w, http:\/\/thewordonthestreet.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2014\/06\/emberton-cover_dm2014-less-350x544.jpg 350w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 96px) 100vw, 96px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>About the book<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Is nothing sacred? If you can&#8217;t trust language, what can you trust? Poet Peter Norman&#8217;s first novel,\u00a0<em>Emberton<\/em>, is a gothic romp through language, where etymologists deceive and lie about word origins, publishing house marketing departments are full of bizarre and self-destructive employees, who often vanish altogether, and all the while something sinister thrives on the power of words.<\/p>\n<p>Take one illiterate protagonist, Lance Blunt, one eerie dictionary publisher, Emberton Publishing, a beautiful (but realistically pale) etymologist, Elena, and a malevolent entity that is bent on draining the world of human language, and you have a comic literary gothic novel aimed at lovers of books and language who also appreciate a dose of genre and a dash of humour. Think Jasper Fforde meets\u00a0<em>Eats, Shoots &amp; Leaves<\/em>\u00a0meets\u00a0<em>Frankenstein\u00a0<\/em>meets Douglas Adams.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Q&amp;A with Cindy<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><br \/>\nWhat drew you to the book?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs a bibliophile and lover of all things creepy, I was instantly drawn to the idea of a mystery revolving around the odd goings-on of a sinister publishing house.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>Did you enjoy the book?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cI absolutely loved it! Norman\u2019s writing is incredibly rich and expressive, and he manages to create such an engrossing read that I honestly had to stop a few times and remind myself that I wasn\u2019t really trapped inside Emberton Tower and that the fate of the Word didn\u2019t actually rest in my hands.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>Would you recommend the book?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cOf course! <em>Emberton<\/em> is a wonderful debut novel by a gifted poet and, like the fictional Emberton Dictionary, the story \u201cthat lives inside [the] book\u201d is sure to thrill any reader.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This week our\u00a0Programming Assistant, Cindy Pang,\u00a0has been reading Emberton. This novel was\u00a0written by\u00a0Peter Norman, and published in March by Douglas &amp; McIntyre. Peter Norman will be appearing at this year&#8217;s festival on September 21st, reading at the Great Books Marquee. About the book Is nothing sacred? If you can&#8217;t trust language, what can you trust? <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"http:\/\/thewordonthestreet.ca\/toronto\/what-the-word-on-the-street-is-reading-emberton\/\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[109],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/thewordonthestreet.ca\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2265"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/thewordonthestreet.ca\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/thewordonthestreet.ca\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thewordonthestreet.ca\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thewordonthestreet.ca\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2265"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/thewordonthestreet.ca\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2265\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2296,"href":"http:\/\/thewordonthestreet.ca\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2265\/revisions\/2296"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/thewordonthestreet.ca\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2265"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thewordonthestreet.ca\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2265"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thewordonthestreet.ca\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2265"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}