{"id":2635,"date":"2013-08-22T20:50:14","date_gmt":"2013-08-22T20:50:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fourwaybooks.com\/site\/?page_id=2635"},"modified":"2022-12-20T13:58:25","modified_gmt":"2022-12-20T18:58:25","slug":"theprettygirl","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/fourwaybooks.com\/site\/theprettygirl\/","title":{"rendered":"The Pretty Girl"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[column col=&#8221;1\/4&#8243;]<a href=\"http:\/\/fourwaybooks.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/The-Pretty-Girl-Front-Cover.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2440\" src=\"http:\/\/fourwaybooks.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/The-Pretty-Girl-Front-Cover.jpg\" alt=\"The-Pretty-Girl-Front-Cover\" width=\"1800\" height=\"2700\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding: 2px 6px 4px 6px; color: #555555; background-color: #eeeeee; border: #dddddd 2px solid;\">paper \u2022 330 pages \u2022 17.95<br \/>\nISBN-13:\u00a0978-1-935536-18-5<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"stunning-text-button gdl-button-hover\" style=\"color: #efefef; background-color: #171717;\" href=\"https:\/\/cdcshoppingcart.uchicago.edu\/Cart2\/Chicagobook?ISBN=9781935536185&amp;PRESS=fourway\" data-color=\" data-color-hover=\" data-bg=\"#d2d2d2\" data-bg-hover=\"#171717\" data-wplink-edit=\"true\">Add to Cart<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/vimeo.com\/34646067\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Watch the Book Trailer<\/a><\/p>\n<p>[\/column]<\/p>\n<h1><em>The Pretty Girl<\/em><\/h1>\n<h2>Debra Spark<\/h2>\n<p>From Victorian toy theatres to a painting with a mysterious story behind it to a graphic novelist\u2019s battle with the schizophrenia that causes her cartoon characters to march off the page, the novella and six stories in Debra Spark\u2019s<em> The Pretty Girl<\/em> revolve around artists, artistry, and the magical\u2014sometimes malicious\u2014deceptions they create. With settings that traverse New York\u2019s Lower East Side, Victorian London, Paris, and Switzerland, Spark\u2019s stories twist and turn in mesmerizing ways as they reflect on the fictions we fabricate about and for friends, family, and strangers; in one story, a woman finds her life unexpectedly dramatized on the stage; in another, a couple\u2019s reconnection with a family friend leads to a labyrinth of mysteries and miscommunications.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"stunning-text-button gdl-button-hover\" style=\"color: #efefef; background-color: #171717;\" href=\"http:\/\/fourwaybooks.com\/site\/debraspark\/\" data-color=\"#ffffff\" data-color-hover=\"#efefef\" data-bg=\"#d2d2d2\" data-bg-hover=\"#171717\">About the Author<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[column col=&#8221;1\/4&#8243;] paper \u2022 330 pages \u2022 17.95 ISBN-13:\u00a0978-1-935536-18-5 Add to Cart Watch the Book Trailer [\/column] The Pretty Girl Debra Spark From Victorian toy theatres to a painting with a mysterious story behind it to a graphic novelist\u2019s battle with the schizophrenia that causes her cartoon characters to march off the page, the novella [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-2635","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourwaybooks.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2635","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourwaybooks.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourwaybooks.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourwaybooks.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourwaybooks.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2635"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/fourwaybooks.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2635\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18776,"href":"https:\/\/fourwaybooks.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2635\/revisions\/18776"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourwaybooks.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2635"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}