{"title":"Lindsay Barrett","description":"\u003cp\u003eLindsay Barrett's works invite readers into vivid explorations of \u003cem\u003eArts \u0026amp; Culture\u003c\/em\u003e, weaving rich narratives that capture the essence of place and identity. His storytelling often marries personal experience with broader cultural reflections, providing thoughtful insights that resonate on multiple levels.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eWith titles such as \u003cem\u003eNew Year's Day at the Hotel Australia\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eNorth\u003c\/em\u003e, Barrett's writing sits comfortably at the intersection of memoir and cultural commentary, offering a unique perspective shaped by history and lived reality. His books are ideal for readers fascinated by the interplay between individual lives and the wider world.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"north-by-lindsay-barrett-9781922571717","title":"North","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA group of aimless young blokes from the suburbs of Sydney go troppo in 1980s North Queensland, as all around them, men fuelled by the resources boom tear up the landscape with abandon.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIf Jack Kerouac had been Australian, he might have come up with something like \u003ci\u003eNorth\u003c\/i\u003e, a tale of Australian masculinity searching for itself, while learning that we need to tread softly on the land if we are to have any sort of a future.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Hachette Aotearoa New Zealand","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46844996681964,"sku":"9781922571717","price":27.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/14128293482872.jpg?v=1758867752"},{"product_id":"new-years-day-at-the-hotel-australia-by-lindsay-barrett-9781922186720","title":"New Year's Day at the Hotel Australia","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn the late 1930s, an apprentice potter made a solemn pledge with some of his young workmates to meet up on New Year's Day, in the year 2000, in the famous Long Bar of the Hotel Australia. However, the reunion never took place because, while sixty years later the young man in question, the author's father, was still going strong, the venue was no longer standing. The Hotel Australia, Sydney's premier hotel throughout much of the twentieth century, had been demolished in 1972 to make way for the MLC Centre, a concrete skyscraper which was at the cutting edge of the city's redevelopment as a global business hub.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eCharting a course through modernist literature, popular fiction, rugby league, shopping centres, suburban kitsch, and prefab concrete, this book examines the impact of the ethic of progress on Australia in the middle of the twentieth century, and how a particular version of masculinity—the self-made man—became enshrined as a new version of Australian identity. At a time when the average tradesman is now a media celebrity, and as property developers scour the urban landscape for profit as never before, \u003ci\u003eNew Year's Day at the Hotel Australia\u003c\/i\u003e looks back at the heyday of the self-made man, and the world he was busy building, even as forces much more powerful than he could muster were in the process of redeveloping it into something much bigger, blander, and more corporate.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Hachette Aotearoa New Zealand","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47426404450540,"sku":"9781922186720","price":27.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9781922186720.jpg?v=1774767927"}],"url":"https:\/\/bookhero.co.nz\/collections\/lindsay-barrett.oembed","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}