Tim Parks

A Season with Verona: Travels Around Italy in Search of Illusion, National Characters (Book)

Tim Parks

ISBN:9781559706285

From Udine to Catania, from San Siro to the Olimpico, traveling with the fans and the players from the tip to the toe of Italy, Tim Parks offers a highly personal account of his relationship with a country...more details
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Adultery and other Diversions (Book)

Tim Parks

ISBN:9780099274841

Drawing on anecdote and autobiography, Tim Parks explores various subjects, such as ghosts, Indian gods, Verona Football Club, adultery and the EC...more details
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Adultery and Other Diversions (Book)

Tim Parks

ISBN:9781559705189

In these wide-ranging and provocative reflections, written with his customary subtlety and insight, Tim Parks tackles topics ranging from adultery and marriage to Italian soccer mania...more details
Format:Paperback  Pages:192

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Adultery and Other Diversions (Book)

Tim Parks

ISBN:9781559704700

In Adultery and Other Diversions, Tim Parks's ambition is, as he puts it, to "dramatize the intimate relation between reflections that are timeless and the ongoing stories of our lives". He succeeds magnificently. Whether his topic is adultery...more details
Format:Hardcover  Pages:172

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An Italian Education: The Further Adventures of an Expatriate in Verona (Book)

Tim Parks

ISBN:9780802142856

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Cleaver (Book)

Tim Parks

ISBN:9780099481393

Overweight and overwrought, Howard Cleaver, London's most successful journalist, abruptly abandons home, partner, mistresses and above all television...more details
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Cleaver (Book)

Tim Parks

ISBN:9780436205613

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Cleaver (Book)

Tim Parks

ISBN:9780436206276

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Format:Book  Pages:320

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Cleaver (Book)

Tim Parks

ISBN:9781559708555

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Format:Hardcover  Pages:316

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Destiny (Book)

Tim Parks

ISBN:9780099284949

An Englishman, married to an Italian, is informed of the suicide of his son. He decides to leave his wife of 30 years standing in this exploration of marriage and destiny whilst treading a narrow line between sanity and psychosis....more details
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Destiny (Book)

Tim Parks

ISBN:9780436220883

An Englishman, married to an Italian, is informed of the suicide of his son. He decides to leave his wife of 30 years standing in this exploration of marriage and destiny whilst treading a narrow line between sanity and psychosis....more details
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Destiny (Book)

Tim Parks

ISBN:9781559705172

Christopher Burton, Britain's foremost foreign correspondent, has returned with his Italian wife to London for an extended stay. One morning...more details
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USD $36.70

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Dreams Of Rivers and Seas (Book)

Tim Parks

ISBN:9781846551147

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Dreams Of Rivers And Seas (Book)

Tim Parks

ISBN:9781846551130

'For some time now, I have been plagued, perhaps blessed, by dreams of rivers and seas, dreams of water'. Just days after Albert James writes these lines to his son...more details
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Dreams of Rivers and Seas (Book)

Tim Parks

ISBN:9780099513360

A blistering new take on the Mafia story-and the basis of a forthcoming film starring Robert De Niro-by the author of THE DEATH AND LIFE OF BOBBY Z...more details
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Erotic Tales (Book)

Alberto Moravia;Tim Parks

ISBN:9780374526511

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Europa (Book)

Tim Parks

ISBN:9780099268093

A comic, dark and dyspeptic novel about an obsessive love gone sour. Jealousy and revenge, passion and dread intertwine in one man's soul as he is trapped in the awful claustrophobia of a three-day coach journey across Europe with a group of people he loathes - and the woman who broke his heart....more details
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Europa (Book)

Tim Parks

ISBN:9781559705066

At the midpoint of his life, Jerry Marlow finds himself on a bus from Milan to Strasbourg, taking stock of the wreckage strewn behind him -- a failed marriage...more details
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Europa (Book)

Tim Parks

ISBN:9781559704441

The voice of Europa is that of Jerry Marlow: a divorced, middle-aged British expatriate who teaches classics at an Italian university and who is recovering (poorly) from a recently ended affair with a French colleague (known in the novel as "her"). The novel begins with Marlow sitting on a bus...more details
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Family Planning (Book)

Tim Parks

ISBN:9780749396794

A black comedy of family life, by the award-winning author of "Tongues of Flame" and "Loving Roger". Raymond has gone mad. His family have planned their lives so carefully...more details
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Fighter, The (Book)

Tim Parks

ISBN:9781846551048

One of Britain's outstanding novelists, Tim Parks has also published two acclaimed essay collections, "Adultery and Other Diversions" and "Hell and Back". This new volume finds him as provocative and entertaining as ever. The title piece addresses D.H. Lawrence's fundamental belligerence and how all the significant relationships in his life...more details
Format:Hardback  Pages:304

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Goodness (Book)

Tim Parks

ISBN:9780749310684

George believes that life is worth living only if it is happy, and that if someone he loves is suffering he should move heaven and earth to end that suffering. He will not accept that life is not destined to be pleasant...more details
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Hell And Back (Book)

Tim Parks

ISBN:9780099274858

From Svevo, Saba and Joyce in Trieste to Borges, Rushdie and psychopathology, Tim Parks new collection of essays confirms his mastery of the essay form. Other subjects include Saramago...more details
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Hell And Back (Book)

Tim Parks

ISBN:9780436275975

From Svevo, Saba and Joyce in Trieste to Borges, Rushdie and psychopathology, Tim Parks' new collection of essays confirms his mastery of the essay form. Other subjects include Saramago...more details
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Home Thoughts (Book)

Tim Parks

ISBN:9780099289937

Centred on a love story full of twists, turns and revelations, this novel explores a world of lost directions, wavering commitments and misplaced ambitions...more details
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Italian Education, An (Book)

Tim Parks

ISBN:9780099286967

How does an Italian become Italian? Or an Englishman English, for that matter? Are foreigners born, or made? In this irresistible sequel to his bestselling Italian Neighbours...more details
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Italian Neighbors (Book)

Tim Parks

ISBN:9780802140340

Jim Parks is the seductive account of one Italian neighborhood and how all its quirkiness came to represent home....more details
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Italian Neighbours (Book)

Tim Parks

ISBN:9780099286950

This is a clever, entertaining book, rare in travel literature, it is charged with a sense of purpose....more details
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Judge Savage (Book)

Tim Parks

ISBN:9780099445043

Promoted young to the position of Crown Court Judge - because of his ability, because of the political convenience of promoting a man with coloured skin - it's time for Daniel Savage to settle down...more details
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Judge Savage (Book)

Tim Parks

ISBN:9781559707404

Now in paperback comes the gripping, suspenseful novel about Daniel Savage, a man who's lived a double life for far too long. Recently promoted to the position of Crown Court judge...more details
Format:Paperback  Pages:456

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Juggling the Stars (Book)

Tim Parks

ISBN:9781559705516

The hugely enjoyable prequel to Mimi's Ghost, this book which first introduced readers to the criminally discontented antihero Morris Duckworth is once again available...more details
Format:Paperback  Pages:230

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Last Vanities (Book)

Fleur Jaeggy;Tim Parks

ISBN:9780811213745

Seven stories, each at some deep level in dark complicity with the others, as terse and spare as if etched with a steel tip. A brooding atmosphere of horror...more details
Format:Paperback  Pages:96

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Letty Fox: Her Luck (Book)

Christina Stead;Tim Parks

ISBN:9780940322707

"One hot night last spring, after waiting fruitlessly for a call from my then lover, with whom I had quarreled the same afternoon, and finding one of my black moods upon me...more details
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Medici Money (Book)

Tim Parks

ISBN:9781861977571

In a brisk and witty narrative, Tim Parks uncovers the intrigues, dodges and moral qualities that gave the Medici their edge. Vividly evoking the richness of the Renaissance and the Medici's glittering circle...more details
Format:Paperback  Pages:288

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Medici Money: Banking, Metaphysics, and Art in Fifteenth-Century Florence (Book)

Tim Parks

ISBN:9780393328455

Before they achieved renown as patrons of the arts and de facto rulers of Florence, the Medici family earned their fortune in banking. But even at the height of the Renaissance...more details
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Medici Money: Banking, Metaphysics, and Art in Fifteenth-Century Florence (Book)

Tim Parks

ISBN:9780393058277

THEIR NAME is a byword for immense wealth and power, but before their renown as art patrons and noblemen the Medicis build their fortune on banking--specifically...more details
Format:Hardcover  Pages:224

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Mimi's Ghost (Book)

Tim Parks

ISBN:9781559705561

Morris seems unable to get over the loss of his ex-fiancee Mimi, but then, he should have thought of that before he held her for ransom and ultimately did away with her. Now...more details
Format:Hardcover  Pages:320

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Rapids (Book)

Tim Parks

ISBN:9780099481386

Suddenly alone, you see the river's horizon come to meet you. There's a certain glassiness to it an as the roar of the rapid swells the water grows more compact...more details
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Rapids (Book)

Tim Parks

ISBN:9780436205590

Meanwhile, the hottest summer on record is filling the glacier-fed rivers with a melt water so wild that it is surely unwise of the distracted instructors to launch their party into the last day's descent of the upper Aurina...Rapids grippingly evokes the vertiginous thrill of entering a hostile environment...more details
Format:Hardback  Pages:256

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Rapids (Book)

Tim Parks

ISBN:9780436205859

But the holiday cannot be entirely separated from the larger world. Rather than allowing them to forget their ordinary personalities, the dangerous river brings out qualities and failings in the most urgent fashion...more details
Format:Book  Pages:256

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Rapids (Book)

Tim Parks

ISBN:9781559708111

A riveting white-water ride down a raging river in the Italian Alps, pitting people against Nature, in the novel Tim Parks was born to write....more details
Format:Hardcover  Pages:245

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Season With Verona, A (Book)

Tim Parks

ISBN:9780099422679

Is Italy a united country, or a loose affiliation of warring states? Is Italian football a sport, or an ill-disguised protraction of ancient enmities? After twenty years in the Bel Pasese...more details
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Talking About It (Book)

Tim Parks

ISBN:9781843918035

The title story of this collection, "Talking about It," presents two friends, George and Michael, meeting ritually in a pub every night after a game of squash. While George recounts his increasingly extravagant sexual experiences...more details
Format:Paperback  Pages:278

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Talking About It (Book)

Tim Parks

ISBN:9781843917045

Collected here for the first time the best from Tim Parks's short fiction, spanning across his entire literary career and enriched by new stories written specifically for this publication. The title story of the collection...more details
Format:Hardback  Pages:356

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The Road to San Giovanni (Book)

Italo Calvino;Tim Parks

ISBN:9780679743484

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