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Books by Tim Parks
  | | An Italian Education(1st Edition) The Further Adventures of an Expatriate in Verona (An Evergreen book) by Tim Parks, Peter Benjaminson Paperback, 352 Pages, Published 2006 by Grove Press Bargain Price ISBN-13: 978-0-8021-4285-6, ISBN: 0-8021-4285-0 "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, Parks continues his chronicle of adapting to Italian society and culture, while raising his Italian-born children. With the exquisite eye for detail, character, and intrigue that has brought him acclaim as a novelist, Parks creates an enchanting po ..." |
 | | Medici Money(1st Edition) Banking, Metaphysics, and Art in Fifteenth-Century Florence (Enterprise) by Tim Parks Paperback, 288 Pages, Published 2006 by W. W. Norton & Company ISBN-13: 978-0-393-32845-5, ISBN: 0-393-32845-7 "“A swift and brilliant synthesis of finance, politics, and history.”—Ben Sisario, New York Times Book ReviewBefore 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, charging interest of any kind meant running afoul of the Catholic Church’s ban on usury. Tim Parks reveals how the legendary Medicis—Cosimo and Lore ..." |
 | | Italian Neighbors(Reprint) by Tim Parks, Barbara Parks, Denise Brunkus, Onyria Herrera Mcelroy Paperback, 280 Pages, Published 2003 by Grove Press ISBN-13: 978-0-8021-4034-0, ISBN: 0-8021-4034-3 "In this deliciously 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, acclaimed novelist Tim Parks celebrates ten years of living with his wife, Rita, in Verona, Italy. Via Colombre, the main street in a village just outside Verona, offers an exemplary hodgepodge of all that is new and old in the be ..." |
 | | Italian Neighbors(Reprint) Or, A Lapsed Anglo-Saxon in Verona by Tim Parks Paperback, 288 Pages, Published 1993 by Ballantine Books ISBN-13: 978-0-449-90818-1, ISBN: 0-449-90818-6 "Tim Parks and his wife, Rita, came to their flat on the aging, eccentric Via Colombare in Montecchio twelve years ago for a short stay. There was trouble from the moment they moved in--under cover of night--and it has gone delightfully up and down hill ever since. In this amusing and loving tribute to the glorious country he has embraced, British novelist Tim Parks shares his secrets of survival, tales of the unexpected, and treasured f ..." |
 | | A Literary Tour of Italy(Reprint) by Tim Parks, Philip Womack Paperback, 288 Pages, Published 2016 by Alma Books ISBN-13: 978-1-84688-391-0, ISBN: 1-84688-391-1 "An acclaimed author of novels and short stories, Tim Parks--who was described in a recent review as "one of the best living writers of English"--has delighted audiences around the world with his finely observed writings on all aspects of Italian life and customs. This volume contains a selection of his best essays on the literature of his adopted country.From Boccaccio and Machiavelli through to Moravia and Tabucchi, from the ..." |
 | | Where I'm Reading From(1st Edition) The Changing World of Books by Tim Parks Hardcover, 256 Pages, Published 2015 by New York Review Books ISBN-13: 978-1-59017-884-3, ISBN: 1-59017-884-X "Why do we need fiction? Why do books need to be printed on paper, copyrighted, read to the finish? Do we read to challenge our vision of the world or to confirm it? Has novel writing turned into a job like any other? In Where I’m Reading From, the novelist and critic Tim Parks ranges over decades of critical reading—from Leopardi, Dickens, and Chekhov, to Virginia Woolf, D. H. Lawrence, and Thomas Bernhard, and on to contemporary work ..." |
 | | Teach Us to Sit Still(Reprint) A Skeptic's Search for Health and Healing by Tim Parks Paperback, 336 Pages, Published 2012 by Rodale Books ISBN-13: 978-1-60961-448-5, ISBN: 1-60961-448-8 "Teach Us to Sit Still is the visceral, thought-provoking, and inexplicably entertaining story of how Tim Parks found himself in serious pain, how doctors failed to help, and the quest he took to find his own way out.Overwhelmed by a crippling condition which nobody could explain or relieve, Parks follows a fruitless journey through the conventional medical system only to find relief in the most unexpected place: a breathing exercise tha ..." |
 | | Painting Death by Tim Parks, Arcade Publishing, 2014 Jan 01 Paperback, 352 Pages, Published 2015 by Arcade Publishing ISBN-13: 978-0-09-958143-7, ISBN: 0-09-958143-4 "BRAND NEW, Exactly same ISBN as listed, Please double check ISBN carefully before ordering." |
 | | Cleaver(Updated) by Tim Parks Paperback, 320 Pages, Published 2007 by Vintage Books Usa ISBN-13: 978-0-09-948139-3, ISBN: 0-09-948139-1 "Overweight and overwrought, Howard Cleaver, London's most successful journalist, abruptly abandons home, partner, mistresses and above all television, the instrument that brought him identity and power. It is the autumn of 2004 and Cleaver has recently enjoyed the celebrity attending his memorable interview with the President of the United States and suffered uncomfortable scrutiny following the publication of his elder son's novelised ..." |
 | | Italian Education by Tim Parks Paperback, 352 Pages, Published 1996 by Harper Perennial ISBN-13: 978-0-380-72760-5, ISBN: 0-380-72760-9 "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, ..." |
 | | Out of My Head On the Trail of Consciousness (Paperback) by Tim Parks Paperback, 352 Pages, Published 2019 by Vintage ISBN-13: 978-1-78470-598-5, ISBN: 1-78470-598-5 |
 | | In Extremis(1st Edition) by Tim Parks Paperback, 352 Pages, Published 2018 by Vintage International Edition ISBN-13: 978-1-78470-597-8, ISBN: 1-78470-597-7 "In Extremis is one of the most implacable, but also one of the funniest, novels about death and family you will ever read. Thomas knows there is something he needs to say to his mother before she dies. But will he reach her in time? And will he have the courage to say what he couldn’t say before? His phone is buzzing, his mind is racing, and he can’t concentrate on the significance of what is happening. Should he try to solve his friend ..." |
 | | Out of My Head(1st Edition) On the Trail of Consciousness by Tim Parks Hardcover, 320 Pages, Published 2018 by Harvill Secker International Edition ISBN-13: 978-1-911215-71-4, ISBN: 1-911215-71-X "Adventures in cutting-edge ideas about consciousness, from bestselling non-fiction writer Tim Parks.Hardly a day goes by without some discussion about whether computers can be conscious, whether our universe is some kind of simulation, whether mind is a unique quality of human beings or spread out across the universe like butter on bread. Most philosophers believe that our experience is locked inside our skulls, an unreliable representa ..." |
 | | In Extremis(1st Edition) by Tim Parks Hardcover, 352 Pages, Published 2017 by Harvill Secker International Edition ISBN-13: 978-1-911215-70-7, ISBN: 1-911215-70-1 "In Extremis is one of the most implacable, but also one of the funniest, novels about death and family you will ever read. Thomas knows there is something he needs to say to his mother before she dies. But will he reach her in time? And will he have the courage to say what he couldn’t say before? His phone is buzzing, his mind is racing, and he can’t concentrate on the significance of what is happening. Should he try to solve his friend ..." |
 | | Where I'm Reading From(1st Edition) The Changing World of Books by Tim Parks Paperback, 272 Pages, Published 2016 by Vintage ISBN-13: 978-1-78470-179-6, ISBN: 1-78470-179-3 "Why do we need fiction? Why do books need to be printed on paper, copyrighted, read to the finish? Do we read to challenge our vision of the world or to confirm it? Has novel writing turned into a job like any other? In Where I’m Reading From, the novelist and critic Tim Parks ranges over decades of critical reading—from Leopardi, Dickens, and Chekhov, to Virginia Woolf, D. H. Lawrence, and Thomas Bernhard, and on to contemporary work ..." |
 | | Italian Ways On and off the Rails from Milan to Palermo [Lingua inglese] [Lingua Inglese] by Tim Parks Paperback, 288 Pages, Published 2014 by Vintage ISBN-13: 978-0-09-958425-4, ISBN: 0-09-958425-5 "`All Italy is here' Sunday TimesFrom the bestselling author of Italian Neighbours, An Italian Education and A Season with VeronaLonglisted for the Dolman Travel Book AwardIn 1981 Tim Parks moved from England to Italy and spent the next thirty years alongside hundreds of thousands of Italians on his adopted country's vast, various and ever-changing networks of trains. Through memorable encounters with ordinary Italians - conductors and t ..." |
 | | Italian Ways(1st Edition) On and Off the Rails from Milan to Palermo by Tim Parks Hardcover, 288 Pages, Published 2013 by W. W. Norton & Company Deckle Edge ISBN-13: 978-0-393-23932-4, ISBN: 0-393-23932-2 "The best-selling author of Italian Neighbors returns with a wry and revealing portrait of Italian life—by riding its trains. Tim Parks’s books on Italy have been hailed as "so vivid, so packed with delectable details, [they] serve as a more than decent substitute for the real thing" (Los Angeles Times Book Review). Now, in his first Italian travelogue in a decade, he delivers a charming and funny portrait of Italian ways by riding its t ..." |
 | | Sex is Forbidden by Tim Parks Paperback, 288 Pages, Published 2013 by Vintage ISBN-13: 978-0-09-956589-5, ISBN: 0-09-956589-7 "Sex is forbidden at the Dasgupta Institute. So what is the sparkling, magnetically attractive Beth Marriot doing here? Beth is fighting demons: a catastrophic series of events has undermined all prospect of happiness. Trauma leaves her no alternative but to bury herself in the austere asceticism of a community that wakes at 4am, doesn't permit eye contact, let alone speech, and keeps men and women strictly segregated. But the curious se ..." |
 | | The Server (Paperback) by Tim Parks Paperback, 278 Pages, Published 2012 by Harvill Secker ISBN-13: 978-1-84655-578-7, ISBN: 1-84655-578-7 "But the curious self dies hard. Conflicted and wayward, Beth stumbles on a diary and cannot keep away from it, or the man who wrote it. Originally published with the title The Server" |
 | | Teach Us to Sit Still(1st Edition) A Skeptic's Search for Health and Healing by Tim Parks Hardcover, 336 Pages, Published 2011 by Rodale Books ISBN-13: 978-1-60961-158-3, ISBN: 1-60961-158-6 "Teach Us to Sit Still is the visceral, thought-provoking, and inexplicably entertaining story of how Tim Parks found himself in serious pain, how doctors failed to help, and the quest he took to find his own way out. Overwhelmed by a crippling condition which nobody could explain or relieve, Parks follows a fruitlessjourney through the conventional medical system only to find relief in the most unexpected place: abreathing exercise tha ..." |
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