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influxpress.bsky.social • 7 days ago

Join us at @burleyfisher.bsky.social on Thursday May 8th to celebrate the publication of COMMEDIA MORTALE by Wayne Holloway , in conversation with @wednesdayerskin.bsky.social!

Tickets here: https://burleyfisherbooks.com/products/conversation-wayne-holloway-wendy-erskine

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influxpress.bsky.social•7 days ago

ABOUT THE BOOK

Liguria, Italy. In a mountain village sits an old farmhouse that stores the memories of those who have lived there and suffers the tales of the visitors who come and go. The house weaves its magic on all who encounter it.

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influxpress.bsky.social•7 days ago

New owners move in and over time become entangled with a parade of oddball characters. From pagan ritual to the antics of modern village life, the clash between outsiders and locals, Commedia Mortale seeks to understand what is authentic in both:

influxpress.bsky.social•7 days ago

the tall tales of ageing Second World War Partisans, the dreams of a chef to travel to parts unknown supported by a Greek chorus of drunks, a talking parrot, and asylum-seeking footballers with their own dreams, and miraculously a visit to the village by Anthony Bourdain himself.

influxpress.bsky.social•7 days ago

Parsed through the eyes of a filmmaker, Commedia Mortale summons dreams of kinship and nightmares of enmity. Ranging across philosophy, food, history, love, loss and landscape, Holloway conjures up a unique portrait of a place, the fables of its past and the dilemma of how to live now.

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