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A Season With Verona
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‘Delves into the very essence of being a fan, while seamlessly exploring Italian history, politics, culture and society,’ GuardianIs Italy a united country, or a loose affiliation of warring states? Is Italian football a sport, or an ill-disguised protraction of ancient enmities?Tim Parks goes on the road to follow the fortunes of Hellas Verona football club, to pay a different kind of visit to some of the world’s most beautiful cities. This is a highly personal account of one man’s relationship with a country, its people and its national sport. A book that combines the pleasures of travel writing with a profound analysis of one country’s mad, mad way of keeping itself entertained.
Additional information
| Weight | 0.319 kg |
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| Dimensions | 2.7 × 12.9 × 19.8 cm |
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| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 464 |
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| Year Published | 2003-3-6 |
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| Publication City/Country | London, United Kingdom |
| ISBN 10 | 0099422670 |
| About The Author | 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. |
Addictive reading…each chapter is a short story, the whole book an epic |
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| Other text | 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 |
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