{"id":677,"date":"2012-09-15T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-01-08T22:51:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cushla.spooky-possum.org\/wordpress\/?p=677"},"modified":"2025-01-01T14:20:43","modified_gmt":"2025-01-01T01:20:43","slug":"alveridgea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cushla.spooky-possum.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/2012\/09\/15\/alveridgea\/","title":{"rendered":"Alveridgea"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading has-large-font-size\"><strong>Ivan Clark and Stu Duval<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading has-large-font-size\"><em>Atlantic Books<\/em><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading has-medium-font-size\">Otago Daily Times, September 15th 2012<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\"><em>Alveridgea and the Legend of the Lonely Dog<\/em> by Ivan Clarke and Stu Duval, is a beautiful book in all senses.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">Set in a world where poor working-class dogs are subjugated by wealthy and aristocratic cats, it tells the tale of a shy and reticent young musician called Lonely, whose songs inspire cat and dog alike to rebel against the cruelty and injustice of the ruling elite.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">The story itself is a universal one, redolent with echoes of historical (and contemporary) events and the setting reminiscent of rust-belt America, so it is relatable. But each character has an independent existence, a detailed back-story.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">The artist, Ivan Clarke, has been painting and (in conjunction with Richard Taylor) sculpting Lonely Dog and the other inhabitants of Alveridgea for years &#8211; the central character is based on his own dachshund, Arthur Snout &#8211; and the young hound&#8217;s adventures originated as bedtime stories for Ivan&#8217;s children. His illustrations bring the story, eloquently written by his longtime friend Stu Duval, to life; and render the book a genuine treasure, a work of art as much as literature.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ivan Clark and Stu Duval<br \/>\n<br \/>\nOtago Daily Times review September 15th 2012<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[153,370,169,18,170,470],"class_list":["post-677","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-book-reviews","tag-153","tag-fiction","tag-ivan-clark","tag-odt","tag-stu-duval","tag-ya"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cushla.spooky-possum.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/677","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cushla.spooky-possum.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cushla.spooky-possum.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cushla.spooky-possum.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cushla.spooky-possum.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=677"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/cushla.spooky-possum.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/677\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1553,"href":"https:\/\/cushla.spooky-possum.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/677\/revisions\/1553"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cushla.spooky-possum.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=677"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cushla.spooky-possum.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=677"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cushla.spooky-possum.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=677"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}