{"id":8205,"date":"2025-07-20T10:39:21","date_gmt":"2025-07-20T10:39:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/8205\/"},"modified":"2025-07-20T10:39:21","modified_gmt":"2025-07-20T10:39:21","slug":"book-review-adam-roberts-food-person-is-a-lip-smacking-good-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/8205\/","title":{"rendered":"Book review: Adam Roberts\u2019 Food Person is a lip-smacking good time"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"font-body-baseline-regular text-primary\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-annotation-test-id\">By Adam Roberts<br \/>Fiction\/Hutchinson Heinemann\/Hardcover\/320 pages\/$34.95<\/p>\n<p class=\"font-body-baseline-regular text-primary\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-annotation-test-id\">Midway through the novel Food Person, protagonist Isabella Pasternack goes shopping. Her jaunt through this garden of earthly delights begins with a stop at a voguish fashion boutique, where she trades 10-year-old ratty jeans, a moth-bitten sweater and holey sneakers for a \u201cpositively diaphanous\u201d silk maxi dress.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Book reviewCooking and cookbooksBooksFiction<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"By Adam RobertsFiction\/Hutchinson Heinemann\/Hardcover\/320 pages\/$34.95 Midway through the novel Food Person, protagonist Isabella Pasternack goes shopping. Her jaunt&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":8206,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[64,63,457,134],"class_list":{"0":"post-8205","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-books","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-books","11":"tag-entertainment"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8205","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8205"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8205\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8206"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8205"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8205"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8205"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}