{"id":3767,"date":"2023-05-30T15:42:40","date_gmt":"2023-05-30T15:42:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.godefy.com\/pluralistic-ian-mcdonalds-hopeland-30-may-2023"},"modified":"2023-05-30T15:42:40","modified_gmt":"2023-05-30T15:42:40","slug":"pluralistic-ian-mcdonalds-hopeland-30-may-2023","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.godefy.com\/pluralistic-ian-mcdonalds-hopeland-30-may-2023\/","title":{"rendered":"Pluralistic: Ian McDonald's "Hopeland" (30 May 2023)"},"content":{"rendered":"

Today’s links Ian McDonald’s “Hopeland”: A novel so eerily good it almost made me angry. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. This day in history: 2013, 2018, 2022 Colophon: Recent publications, upcoming\/recent appearances, current writing projects, current reading Ian McDonald’s “Hopeland” (permalink) Have you ever read a novel that was so good you almost felt angry at it? I mean, maybe that’s just me, but there is one author who consistently triggers my literary pleasure centers so hard that I get spillover into all my other senses, and that’s Ian McDonald, who has a new novel out: Hopeland: https:\/\/us.macmillan.com\/books\/9780765375551\/hopeland Seriously what the fuck is this amazing, uncategorizable, unsummarizable, weird, sprawling, hairball of a novel? How the hell do you research – much less write – a novel this ambitious and wide-ranging? Why did I find myself weeping uncontrollably on a train yesterday as I finished it, literally squeezing my chest over my heart as it broke and sang at the same moment? Hopeland is a climate novel, and it’s not McDonald’s first. Hearts, Hands and Voices (published in the US as The Broken Land) is a climate novel (that also happens to be about the Irish Troubles). So is his stunning debut, Desolation Road, which I picked up at a mall bookstore in 1988 and lost my mind over: https:\/\/memex.craphound.com\/2009\/07\/02\/ian-mcdonalds-brilliant-mars-book-desolation-road-finally-back-in-print\/ But those were climate novels written in the early stages of the discussion of the gravity of the anthropocene, and so climate change was more setting than anything else….Pluralistic: Ian McDonald's "Hopeland" (30 May 2023)<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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