{"id":76,"date":"2011-09-17T13:11:09","date_gmt":"2011-09-17T13:11:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ticonderogapublications.au\/index.php\/2011\/09\/17\/canberra-times-reviews-the-girl-with-no-hands\/"},"modified":"2011-09-17T13:11:09","modified_gmt":"2011-09-17T13:11:09","slug":"canberra-times-reviews-the-girl-with-no-hands","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ticonderogapublications.au\/index.php\/2011\/09\/17\/canberra-times-reviews-the-girl-with-no-hands\/","title":{"rendered":"Canberra Times Reviews The Girl With No Hands"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The<em> Canberra Times<\/em>&#8216; Colin Steel reviews <strong>The Girl With No Hands and other tales<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><em>Brisbane based, Angela Slatter writes in the magical dark fantasy mould of Angela Carter. Slatter believes &#8220;colonised fairytales offer us a particular mode of living and interacting&#8221;, which Jack Dann, in his introduction, says &#8220;explode the patriarchal messages embedded in traditional fairytales&#8221;. Women thus strive to take control of their lives, for better or for worse. The overall standard of the sixteen stories is extremely high, particularly the haunting &#8220;The Jacaranda Wife&#8221;, set in rural nineteenth century Australia, and &#8220;The Living Book&#8221; where a young woman is literally born to be read. Slatter also provides fascinating background to her stories in an Afterword. Slatter is an Australian author to watch.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>(From Sunday <em>Canberra Times<\/em>, 30\/01\/11)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Canberra Times&#8216; Colin Steel reviews The Girl With No Hands and other tales Brisbane based, Angela Slatter writes in the magical dark fantasy mould of Angela Carter. Slatter believes &#8220;colonised fairytales offer us a particular mode of living and interacting&#8221;, which Jack Dann, in his introduction, says &#8220;explode the patriarchal messages embedded in traditional [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[45],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-76","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-the-girl-with-no-hands"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ticonderogapublications.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ticonderogapublications.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ticonderogapublications.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ticonderogapublications.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ticonderogapublications.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=76"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ticonderogapublications.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ticonderogapublications.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=76"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ticonderogapublications.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=76"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ticonderogapublications.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=76"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}