{"product_id":"a-midsummer-party-by-antoni-jach-9781923023710","title":"A Midsummer Party","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA 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 Carter\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eAn 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eWith 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eErudite and amusing, \u003ci\u003eA Midsummer Party\u003c\/i\u003e is both a revelation, a romp and a penetrating reflection on the intersection of art and our own human foibles.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAntoni 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\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eBeneath this story, as people come and go, talking of Michelangelo and other topics, lies a tale of subtle philosophical depth. \u003ci\u003eA Midsummer Party\u003c\/i\u003e brings to mind the films of Fellini or Sorrentino. It is delightful, beguiling, entertaining, and thought-provoking. – Paul Morgan\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Hachette Aotearoa New Zealand","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":67708747350252,"sku":"9781923023710","price":39.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9781923023710-a-midsummer-party-1.jpg?v=1791834527","url":"https:\/\/bookhero.pro\/products\/a-midsummer-party-by-antoni-jach-9781923023710","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}