Italian Neighbors

Author : Tim Parks
Publisher : Grove/Atlantic, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 0802191150
Total Pages : 213 pages
Book Rating : 4.51/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Italian Neighbors written by Tim Parks and published by Grove/Atlantic, Inc.. This book was released on 2015-01-07 with total page 213 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A New York Times Notable Book of the Year: A deliciously entertaining account of expatriate life in a small village just outside Verona, Italy. Tim Parks is anything but a gentleman in Verona. So after ten years of living with his Italian wife, Rita, in a typical provincial Italian neighborhood, the novelist found that he had inadvertently collected a gallery full of splendid characters. In this wittily observed account, Parks introduces readers to his home town, with a statue of the Virgin at one end of the street, a derelict bottle factory at the other, and a wealth of exotic flora and fauna in between. Via Colombare, the village’s main street, offers an exemplary hodgepodge of all that is new and old in the bel paese, a point of collision between invading suburbia and diehard peasant tradition. It is a world of creeping vines, stuccoed walls, shotguns, security cameras, hypochondria, and expensive sports cars. More than a mere travelogue, Italian Neighbors is a vivid portrait of the real Italy and a compelling story of how even the most foreign people and places gradually assume the familiarity of home. “One of the most delightful travelogues imaginable . . . so vivid, so packed with delectable details.” —Los Angeles Times Book Review

Author : Tim Parks
Publisher : Grove Press
ISBN 13 : 9780802140340
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.43/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Italian Neighbors written by Tim Parks and published by Grove Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this seductive account of an Italian neighborhood with a statue of the Virgin at one end of the street, a derelict bottle factory at the other, and a wealth of exotic flora and fauna in between, novelist Tim Parks celebrates ten years of living with his wife in Verona, Italy. More than a travel book, this is a tale of how the most curious people and places gradually assume the familiarity of home, a work that manages to be both a portrait and an invitation for everyone who has ever dreamed about Italy.--From publisher description.

Author : Tim Parks
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 0393348822
Total Pages : 283 pages
Book Rating : 4.28/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Italian Ways: On and Off the Rails from Milan to Palermo written by Tim Parks and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2014-05-05 with total page 283 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An Italian travelogue describes the trains that traverse the country, from the architecture of old train stations to the new high-speed railways, and portrays the author's memorable encounters along the way.

Author : Tim Parks
Publisher : Grove/Atlantic, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 0802191142
Total Pages : 297 pages
Book Rating : 4.44/5 ( download)

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Download or read book An Italian Education written by Tim Parks and published by Grove/Atlantic, Inc.. This book was released on 2015-01-07 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A “marvelous” Mediterranean memoir of an expatriate father raising his children in Italy—from the author of Italian Neighbors (The Washington Post). Tim Parks offers another lively firsthand account of Italian society and culture—this time focusing on all the little things that turn an ordinary newborn infant into a true Italian. When British-born Tim Parks heard a mother at the beach in Pescara shout to her son, “Alberto, don’t sweat! No you can’t go in the sea till eleven, it’s still too cold, go and see your cousin in row three number fifty-two,” he was inspired to write about parenting in Italy—which he was doing himself at the time after adopting the country as his own. In this humorous memoir, Parks offers an enchanting portrait of Italian childhood that shifts from comedy to despair in the time it takes to sing a lullaby. The result is “a wry, thoughtful, and often hilarious book . . . a parable of how our children, no matter what, are other than ourselves” (The New Yorker). “Glimpses of Italy that are fond, critical, pithy and penetrating.” —The Atlanta Journal-Constitution

Author : Jerre Mangione
Publisher : Syracuse University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780815604297
Total Pages : 340 pages
Book Rating : 4.97/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Mount Allegro written by Jerre Mangione and published by Syracuse University Press. This book was released on 1998-03-01 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mount Allegro is an extraordinary memoir, a celebration of Sicilian life, an engaging sociological portrait, a moving reminiscence of a fledgling writer’s escape from the restrictive culture in which he grew up. Jerre Mangione’s autobiographical chronicle of his youth in a Sicilian community in Rochester is one of the truly enduring books about the immigrant experience in this country. Family squabbles, soul-nourishing food, and the casting of evil eyes are only some of the ingredients of this richly textured book, although they must all take second place to its unforgettable characters. As Eugene Paul Nassar writes in the book’s Foreword, “Mount Allegro . . . gave a literary visibility and identity, amiable and appealing, to a poorly understood ethnic group in America, and did so at a very high level of artistry.”

Author : Tim Parks
Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 1446485579
Total Pages : 338 pages
Book Rating : 4.76/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Italian Neighbours written by Tim Parks and published by Random House. This book was released on 2012-06-12 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Am I giving the impression that I don't like the Veneto? It's not true. I love it. But like any place that's become home I hate it too." How does an Englishman cope when he moves to Italy - not the tourist idyll but the real Italy? When Tim Parks first moved to Verona he found it irresistible and infuriating in equal measure; this book is the story of his love affair with it. Infused with an objective passion, he unpicks the idiosyncrasies and nuances of Italian culture with wit and affection. Italian Neighbours is travel writing at its best.

Author : Gary R. Mormino 
Publisher : Library Press at Uf
ISBN 13 : 9781947372641
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.45/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Immigrant World of Ybor City written by Gary R. Mormino  and published by Library Press at Uf. This book was released on 2018-02-20 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The books in the Florida and the Caribbean Open Books Series demonstrate the University Press of Florida's long history of publishing Latin American and Caribbean studies titles that connect in and through Florida, highlighting the connections between the Sunshine State and its neighboring islands. Books in this series show how early explorers found and settled Florida and the Caribbean. They tell the tales of early pioneers, both foreign and domestic. They examine topics critical to the area such as travel, migration, economic opportunity, and tourism. They look at the growth of Florida and the Caribbean and the attendant pressures on the environment, culture, urban development, and the movement of peoples, both forced and voluntary. The Florida and the Caribbean Open Books Series gathers the rich data available in these architectural, archaeological, cultural, and historical works, as well as the travelogues and naturalists' sketches of the area in prior to the twentieth century, making it accessible for scholars and the general public alike. The Florida and the Caribbean Open Books Series is made possible through a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, under the Humanities Open Books program.

Author : Rick Detorie
Publisher : Perigee Trade
ISBN 13 : 9780399513596
Total Pages : 100 pages
Book Rating : 4.90/5 ( download)

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Download or read book How to Survive an Italian Family written by Rick Detorie and published by Perigee Trade. This book was released on 1987 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The bestselling author of Catholics turns his witty attention to this hilarious satire of modern Italian family life. Black-and-white illustrations.

Author : Paul Hofmann
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 9780805017298
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.91/5 ( download)

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Download or read book That Fine Italian Hand written by Paul Hofmann and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 1991-03-15 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: No other people over so long a history have shown a greater knack for survival than the Italians. In this wryly affectionate book, Hofmann reveals his adopted countrymen in all their glorious paradoxes, capturing their national essence as no other book has done since Luigi Barzini's classic, The Italians. The national art of "arrangement"-- dodging taxes, double-dealing, working only as hard as one must-- is counteracted by Italian inventive genius, gusto for life, fierce individuality, deep family bonds (as well as animosities), and a marvelously hedonistic sophistication.

Author : Frank Pellegrino
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 0312316364
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.65/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Rao's Recipes from the Neighborhood written by Frank Pellegrino and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2004-11-04 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author of the classic "The Rao's Cookbook" delivers more than 100 classicItalian recipes from his very own kitchen.