{"product_id":"roma-9780993149078","title":"Roma","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eTime', wrote the Roman emperor Marcus Aurelius, is a river of passing events, and strong is its current; no sooner is a thing brought to sight than it is swept by and another takes its place, and this too will be swept away.' In \u003cem\u003eRoma\u003c\/em\u003e, Bernard Saint follows the shade of Marcus Aurelius through the elastic time zones of the Eternal City. There they encounter Gregory Corso, Chet Baker, Jane Birkin and Serge Gainsbourg; they walk down the Catwalk, watch Reality TV and guide a rock-star into rehab. Like Cavafy's Alexandria, Grass's Danzig, Borges' Buenos Aires  and Fellini's Roma  this is a book about a city where time never walks in a straight narrative line. It is a book about imagination and history, accidents and architecture, faces and frescoes; a river where past, present, and future meet.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Smokestack Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49406615716183,"sku":"9780993149078","price":7.95,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780993149078.jpg?v=1730496505","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/roma-9780993149078","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}