{"id":206885,"date":"2017-07-21T12:01:53","date_gmt":"2017-07-21T16:01:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/prometheism-transhumanism-posthumanism\/fiction-review-living-the-dream-the-sydney-morning-herald-the-sydney-morning-herald\/"},"modified":"2017-07-21T12:01:53","modified_gmt":"2017-07-21T16:01:53","slug":"fiction-review-living-the-dream-the-sydney-morning-herald-the-sydney-morning-herald","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/prometheism-transhumanism-posthumanism\/hedonism\/fiction-review-living-the-dream-the-sydney-morning-herald-the-sydney-morning-herald\/","title":{"rendered":"Fiction review: Living the Dream &#8211; The Sydney Morning Herald &#8211; The Sydney Morning Herald"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><p>Living    The Dream, by Lauren Berry.Photo:    supplied    <\/p>\n<p>      Living the Dream    <\/p>\n<p>      Lauren Berry    <\/p>\n<p>      Virago, $29.99    <\/p>\n<p>      This witty debut from Lauren Berry focuses on two young women      in London whose dreams seem out of reach. Emma Derringer      works at an ad agency; she blogs on the sly and privately      keeps her hopes of being a novelist alive, in the face of a      soul-crushing job she hates. Clementine Twist has returned      from New York empty-handed, finding casual bar work and      living with her mum as she desperately tries to advance a      career as a screenwriter. The gal pals bond over random      hedonism and cynical banter, while resenting other characters      who seem to have their lives more together. Berry writes      clever, overheard-sounding dialogue and her satire of two      woman-children in their late 20s does have sardonic bite. The      main trouble, though, is the novel's resolution  a belated      coming-of-age that skirts around rather than delves into      problems the characters face, and feels surprisingly shallow      and unearned.    <\/p>\n<p><!-- Auto Generated --><\/p>\n<p>View post: <\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/www.smh.com.au\/entertainment\/books\/fiction-review-living-the-dream-20170716-gxc4nx.html\" title=\"Fiction review: Living the Dream - The Sydney Morning Herald - The Sydney Morning Herald\">Fiction review: Living the Dream - The Sydney Morning Herald - The Sydney Morning Herald<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> Living The Dream, by Lauren Berry.Photo: supplied Living the Dream Lauren Berry Virago, $29.99 This witty debut from Lauren Berry focuses on two young women in London whose dreams seem out of reach.  <a href=\"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/prometheism-transhumanism-posthumanism\/hedonism\/fiction-review-living-the-dream-the-sydney-morning-herald-the-sydney-morning-herald\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[187715],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-206885","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hedonism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/prometheism-transhumanism-posthumanism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206885"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/prometheism-transhumanism-posthumanism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/prometheism-transhumanism-posthumanism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/prometheism-transhumanism-posthumanism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/prometheism-transhumanism-posthumanism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=206885"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/prometheism-transhumanism-posthumanism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206885\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/prometheism-transhumanism-posthumanism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=206885"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/prometheism-transhumanism-posthumanism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=206885"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/prometheism-transhumanism-posthumanism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=206885"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}