{"product_id":"a-midsummer-party-antoni-jach-9781923023710","title":"A Midsummer Party","description":"\u003cp\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 Carter\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, A Midsummer Party 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'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\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e'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\/p\u003e","brand":"Antoni Jach","offers":[{"title":"New","offer_id":67760037953779,"sku":"9781923023710","price":34.99,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0634\/4284\/5939\/files\/9781923023710.jpg?v=1792091022","url":"https:\/\/www.harryhartog.com.au\/products\/a-midsummer-party-antoni-jach-9781923023710","provider":"Harry Hartog Bookseller","version":"1.0","type":"link"}