{"product_id":"midsummer-party","title":"Midsummer Party","description":"\r\n\t\t\r\n\t\t\r\n\t\t\u003cstyle type=\"text\/css\"\u003e.cs97DFFCB{12pt;font-weight:normal;color:#000000;font-style:normal;Times New Roman;} .cs3270F94{margin:0pt 0pt 0pt 0pt;text-align:left;text-indent:0pt}\u003c\/style\u003e\r\n\t\r\n\t\u003cp class=\"cs3270F94\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"cs97DFFCB\"\u003e‘A party turns into a palace of storytelling. Around the unnamed artist-narrator, characters – comic, self-absorbed, ambitious, lost – approach and depart. Snapshots of vanished Australia and enchanted Italy depict the poignancy of memory, its inevitable twinning with self-confabulation and self-departure. Comic, compassionate, brilliantly composed, a travelling companion for the imagination.’ – Paul CarterAn Australian journalist attends a party in Rome, the Eternal City. The result is at once a celebration and a distillation of what travel can be and still is: an intelligent, hilarious, and sometimes prickly conversation between cultures.With finesse, Antoni Jach affectionately lampoons everything from the publishing world and the writing life to relationships, his beloved hometown Melbourne, and the often-pompous nature of national pride.Erudite and amusing, A Midsummer Party is both a revelation, a romp and a penetrating reflection on the intersection of art and our own human foibles.‘Antoni Jach reveals travel as a vehicle for the psyche, a sort of time travel machine. I loved this book, the sense of philosophy that underpins everything it has to say. In the future I will travel with a greater sense of the magical.’ – Virginia Peters‘Beneath this story, as people come and go, talking of Michelangelo and other topics, lies a tale of subtle philosophical depth. A Midsummer Party brings to mind the films of Fellini or Sorrentino. It is delightful, beguiling, entertaining, and thought-provoking.’ – Paul Morgan \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Beaumaris Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43122263064656,"sku":"9781923023710","price":34.99,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0211\/2428\/files\/9781923023710_1.jpg?v=1793914566","url":"https:\/\/beaumarisbooks.com.au\/products\/midsummer-party","provider":"Beaumaris Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}