{"id":9045,"date":"2014-11-15T13:43:25","date_gmt":"2014-11-15T17:43:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/evetushnet\/?p=9045"},"modified":"2014-11-15T13:43:25","modified_gmt":"2014-11-15T17:43:25","slug":"the-human-face-a-furnace-seald-i-review-john-darnielles-new-novel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/evetushnet\/2014\/11\/the-human-face-a-furnace-seald-i-review-john-darnielles-new-novel.html","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;The Human Face a Furnace Seal&#8217;d&#8221;: I Review John Darnielle&#8217;s New Novel"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p>for AmCon:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Wolf-White-Van-A-Novel\/dp\/0374292086\/ref=as_sl_pc_ss_til?tag=theamericonse-20&amp;linkCode=w01&amp;linkId=C3SLR52CMODP7IDY&amp;creativeASIN=0374292086\" target=\"_blank\" class=\" decorated-link\" rel=\"nofollow\">new novel<\/a> from indie music hero <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theamericanconservative.com\/the-mountain-goats-disco-purgatorio\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">John Darnielle<\/a> is a moving tribute to the power of the imagination. But not in the way you might think.<\/p>\n<p>The novel\u2019s setup is fairly simple. Sean, the narrator, suffered severe facial disfigurement from a gunshot wound sometime in his early life\u2014the kind of disfigurement which makes him hard to look at, which makes other people recoil from him. But after decades of learning to accept his situation, he\u2019s patient, quiet, and hopeful. He\u2019s even managed to turn his suffering into a vocation: He supplements his insurance payments by creating play-by-mail adventure games. He personally guides subscribers through fantasy realms he devised as he recuperated alone in his hospital bed. The most elaborate and alluring of these worlds is <em>Trace Italian<\/em>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theamericanconservative.com\/articles\/the-human-face-a-furnace-seald-john-darnielles-wolf-in-white-van\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">more<\/a><\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>for AmCon: The new novel from indie music hero John Darnielle is a moving tribute to the power of the imagination. But not in the way you might think. The novel\u2019s setup is fairly simple. 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