A Season with Verona: Travels Around Italy in Search of Illusions, National Character and Goals

Born in Manchester, Tim Parks grew up in London and studied at Cambridge and Harvard. In 1981 he moved to Italy where he has lived ever since. He is the author of novels, non-fiction and essays, including Europa, Cleaver and Teach Us to Sit Still. He has won the Somerset Maugham, Betty Trask and Llewellyn Rhys awards, and been shortlisted for the Booker Prize. He lectures on literary translation in Milan, writes for publications such as the New Yorker and the New York Review of Books, and his many translations from the Italian include works by Moravia, Calvino, Calasso, Tabucchi and Machiavelli.

Title: A Season with Verona: Travels Around Italy in Search of Illusions, National Character and Goals

Author: Tim Parks

ISBN: 9780099422679

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Publisher: Vintage Publishing

Publication Date: 2003-03-06

Number of Pages: 464

Weight: 0.3584 kg

Addictive reading...each chapter is a short story, the whole book an epic * Observer *
Parks knows his football, and he knows Italy still better. His adopted country, in all its enduring and exasperating strengths and weaknesses, comes vividly to life * Sunday Times *
A fascinating emotional journey... His descriptions of Italian football are descriptions of Italy itself, its regional differences, its squabbles, its distinctive temper * Daily Telegraph *
An enthralling, insightful account of the real Italy * Independent *