Italian Education
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ISBN: 0380727609 / Publisher: Harper Perennial, September 1996
The author of Italian Neighbors describes family life in Italy, including a colorful beach holiday, and ponders the Italians' hypersensitivity to weather. Reprint.
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Tim Parks' first bestseller, Italian Neighbors, chronicled his initiation into Italian society and cultural life. Reviewers everywhere hailed it as a bravissimo performance. Now he turns to his children -- born and bred in Italy -- and their milieu in a small village near Verona.With the splendid eye for detail, character, and intrigue that has brought him acclaim as a novelist, he creates a fascinating portrait of Italian family life, at school, at home, in church, and in the countryside. Thispanoramic journey winds up with a deliciously seductive evocation of an Italian beach holiday that epitomizes everything that is quintessentially Italian. Here is an insider's Italy, re-created by "one of the most giftedwriters of his generation" (Jonathan Yardley, The Washington Post)
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