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 Format:Hardcover Pages:447
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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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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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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 Format:Paperback
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Tim Parks
ISBN:9781611451078
Brilliant, probing, and provocative reflections from the author of the bestselling Italian Neighborsand An Italian Education.In Adultery and Other Diversions...more details Format:Paperback Pages:192
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Tim Parks
ISBN:9780802142856
Tim Parks's best seller, "Italian Neighbors," offered a sparkling, witty, and acutely observed account of an expatriate's life in a small village outside of Verona. Now in "An Italian Education...more details Format:Paperback Pages:338
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Tim Parks
ISBN:9780749396800
Bored and broke, Morris Duckworth, an English teacher in Verona, stumbles on a plan for financial salvation - to marry Massimina, a seventeen-year-old student. And if his intentions are frustrated by a suspicious...more details Format:Paperback
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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 Format:Paperback / softback Pages:320
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Tim Parks
ISBN:9781611451320
Why would a man who has it all suddenly turn his back on the world at the height of his power?A celebrated journalist, broadcaster, and documentary filmmaker...more details Format:Paperback Pages:320
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Tim Parks
ISBN:9781409059189
Overweight and overwrought, Howard Cleaver, London's most successful journalist, abruptly abandons home, partner, mistresses and above all television...more details Format:Electronic book text
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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 Format:Hardcover Pages:304
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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 Format:Paperback
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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 Format:Hardback
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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 Format:Hardback Pages:448
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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 Format:Paperback / softback
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Tim Parks
ISBN:9781407014524
Abandoning a pretty girlfriend and the lab where he is completing his PhD, John flies to Delhi to join his mother in mourning. A brilliant and controversial anthropologist...more details Format:Electronic book text
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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 Format:Paperback Pages:272
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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 Format:Hardcover Pages:272
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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 Format:Paperback
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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 Format:Paperback
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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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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 Format:Paperback
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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 Format:Paperback
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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 Format:Hardback
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Tim Parks
ISBN:9781611451641
A brilliant new collection of essays of writers and their craft by the man Joseph Brodsky has called ""the best British author working today.""In Hell and Back...more details Format:Paperback Pages:464
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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 Format:Paperback
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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 Format:Paperback
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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 Format:Paperback Pages:272
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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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Tim Parks
ISBN:9781559706919
A gripping, suspenseful, and compulsively readable novel about a powerful man who lives a double life from the author Jonathan Yardley calls "one of the most gifted writers of his generation...more details Format:Hardcover Pages:456
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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 Format:Paperback Pages:448
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Tim Parks
ISBN:9781409040668
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 Format:Electronic book text
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Tim Parks
ISBN:9781611451740
A gripping, suspenseful, and compulsively readable novel from the author Jonathan Yardley calls "one of the most gifted writers of his generation...more details Format:Paperback Pages:464
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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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Tim Parks
ISBN:9781611451757
Morris Duckworth teaches English to the pampered rich of Verona, and Morris is not pleased. Living a meager existence in a squalid apartment...more details Format:Paperback Pages:240
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Tim Parks
ISBN:9781861977915
The Medici faced two apparently insuperable problems: how did a banker deal with that fact that the Church regarded interest as a sin and had made it illegal? How...more details Format:Hardback Pages:224
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 / softback Pages:288
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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 Format:Paperback Pages:273
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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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Tim Parks
ISBN:9781559706025
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:Paperback Pages:314
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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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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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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 Format:Paperback / softback Pages:256
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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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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:Paperback / softback Pages:256
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Tim Parks
ISBN:9781409059059
In the dramatic landscape of the Italian Alps a group of English canoeists arrive for an 'introduction to white water.' Camping, eating and paddling together...more details Format:Electronic book text
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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 Format:Paperback
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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 / softback Pages:278
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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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Tim Parks
ISBN:9780099548881
'Just when the medical profession had given up on me and I on it, just when I seemed to be walled up in a life sentence of chronic pain, someone proposed a bizarre way out: sit still...more details Format:Paperback / softback Pages:288
"Teach Us to Sit Still" is the visceral, thought-provoking, and inexplicably entertaining story of how Tim Parks found himself in serious pain...more details Format:Hardcover Pages:322
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Tim Parks
ISBN:9780099513322
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:Paperback / softback Pages:304
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Tim Parks
ISBN:9780749396176
The gift of tongues, prophecy exorcism. . . what might such concepts mean in a complacent backwater of North London? For Richard Bowen, adolescence becomes a nightmare when his parents join the charismatic movement and find a devil in his brother....more details Format:Paperback
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Tim Parks;Michael Kitchen
ISBN:9780754005292
Three months after returning to England, Christopher Burton, while standing at the reception desk of the Rembrandt Hotel, Knightsbridge, receives the phone call that informs him of his son's suicide. But why...more details Format:Analog Audio Cassette
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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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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 Format:Paperback Pages:640
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J Timmons Roberts;Bradley C Parks
ISBN:9780262681612
The global debate over who should take action to address climate change is extremely precarious, as diametrically opposed perceptions of climate justice threaten the prospects for any long-term agreement. Poor nations fear limits on their efforts to grow economically and meet the needs of their own people...more details Format:Paperback / softback Pages:404
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J Timmons Roberts;Bradley C Parks
ISBN:9780262182560
The global debate over who should take action to address climate change is extremely precarious, as diametrically opposed perceptions of climate justice threaten the prospects for any long-term agreement. Poor nations fear limits on their efforts to grow economically and meet the needs of their own people...more details Format:Hardback Pages:404
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Timothy L Parks
ISBN:9780977755813
A series of articles and photos by Timothy L. Parks that appeared in a weekly column of a Cooke County Texas News Paper under the title of "Cooke County Then & Now."...more details Format:Paperback Pages:224
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Timothy L Parks
ISBN:9780738528755
Constructed between 1956 and 1966 by the United States Bureau of Reclamation, Glen Canyon Dam on the Colorado River was a project of immense proportions. Even before the non-stop pouring of 5 million yards of concrete began...more details Format:Paperback Pages:128
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Betty Stephenson;Louis Parks Timothy LStephenson
ISBN:9780972748896
Over 90,000 troops were trained at Camp Howze in Gainesville, Texas during World War II. "Poker Games, Pillow Shams, and Parched Prairies" is an insightful second edition publication of journalist Betty Stephenson's perspective of Camp Howze....more details Format:Paperback Pages:116
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Parks Tim
ISBN:9781846553998
'Just when the medical profession had given up on me and I on it, just when I seemed to be walled up in a life sentence of chronic pain, someone proposed a bizarre way out: sit still...more details Format:Paperback / softback
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Henry Timrod;Aileen Wells Parks Edd WinfieldParks
ISBN:9780820331454
An important figure in the literature of the antebellum South, Henry Timrod was a member of the literary group of Charleston, South Carolina. This book is a variorum edition of Timrod's major poetry...more details Format:Paperback / softback Pages:216
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Henry Timrod;Edd Winfield Parks
ISBN:9780820331461
This book contains all of Timrod's essays and editorials that deal with literature. It includes William J. Grayson's neoclassical essay on poetry...more details Format:Paperback / softback Pages:192