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  | | Italian Neighbours(Updated) An Englishman In Verona by Tim Parks, Deborah Parks Paperback, 327 Pages, Published 2001 by Vintage Import ISBN-13: 978-0-09-928695-0, ISBN: 0-09-928695-5 "'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 idiosyncra ..." |
 | | Mimi's Ghost(1st Edition) by Tim Parks Hardcover, 320 Pages, Published 2001 by Arcade Publishing ISBN-13: 978-1-55970-556-1, ISBN: 1-55970-556-6 "Morris Duckworth is back-newly married, wealthy, and employed, but just as discontented as ever. He can't seem to get over the loss of his wife's sister Mimi, but he should have thought of that before he kidnapped and killed her. Just as our unsavory hero is beginning to adjust to his new life, he visits Mimi's grave on the "Day of the Dead," and the charming photograph of Mimi on the gravestone distinctly winks at him, which does not ..." |
 | | Destiny(Reprint) A Novel by Tim Parks Paperback, 256 Pages, Published 2001 by Arcade Publishing ISBN-13: 978-1-55970-575-2, ISBN: 1-55970-575-2 |
 | | Juggling the Stars(Reprint) by Tim Parks Paperback, 230 Pages, Published 2001 by Arcade Publishing ISBN-13: 978-1-55970-551-6, ISBN: 1-55970-551-5 "Tim Parks. a washbasin with a mirror in one corner. Morris turned on the tap, slipped off his trousers and unbuttoned the shirt; he plunged them into the water and without even ... Then when he turned round to grab a towel he found Massimina was standing behind him, quite naked. ... She thought it was oh so hellishly romantic of course. ... 'Cara,' he muttered, his arms around her, 'cara Massimina." |
 | | Hell and Back by Tim Parks Hardcover, 276 Pages, Published 2001 by Secker Warburg Import ISBN-13: 978-0-436-27597-5, ISBN: 0-436-27597-X "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, Sebald, Seth, Henry Green, Christina Stead, Leopardi, Verga, Montale, Sironi in Fascist Italy, Buzzati, Bateson and Neugeboren" |
 | | Letty Fox Her Luck (New York Review Books Classics) by Christina Stead, Tim Parks Paperback, 592 Pages, Published 2001 by Nyrb Classics ISBN-13: 978-0-940322-70-7, ISBN: 0-940322-70-6 "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, I flung out of my lonely room on the ninth floor (unlucky number) in a hotel in lower Fifth Avenue and rushed into the streets of the Village, feeling bad.So begins Letty Fox's own story, a comic extravaganza in which she tells about the crazy circus of her early lif ..." |
 | | AnItalian Education by Parks, Tim ON May-03-2001, Paperback(Updated) by Tim Parks Paperback, 464 Pages, Published 2001 by Vintage Import ISBN-13: 978-0-09-928696-7, ISBN: 0-09-928696-3 "How does an Italian become Italian? Or an Englishman English, for that matter? Are foreigners born, or made? In "An Italian Education", Tim Parks focuses on his own young children in the small village near Verona where he lives, building a fascinating picture of the contemporary Italian family at school, at home, at work, and at play. The result is a delight: at once a family book and a travel book, not quite enamoured with either child ..." |
 | | Literature and the Gods(1st Edition) by Roberto Calasso, Tim Parks Hardcover, 224 Pages, Published 2001 by Knopf ISBN-13: 978-0-375-41138-0, ISBN: 0-375-41138-0 "From the internationally acclaimed author of The Marriage of Cadmus and Harmony and Ka, a stunning summation of his lifelong study of the role of the gods in the human imagination. Based on the prestigious Weidenfeld Lectures Roberto Calasso gave at Oxford in May 2000, Literature and the Gods traces the return of pagan divinities to Western literature from their first reappearance at the beginning of the modern era to their place in the ..." |
 | | Schicksal. Roman. Aus dem Englischen von Ulrike Becker. by Tim Parks Hardcover, Published 2001 by Büchergilde Gutenberg (Lizenz Des Verlages Antje Kunstmann), Frankfurt Am Main, Wien, Zürich ISBN-13: 978-3-7632-5198-8, ISBN: 3-7632-5198-7 |
 | | Schicksal. Gelesen von Hanns Zischler. Hörkunst bei Kunstmann. Länge ca. 267 Minuten. by Tim: Parks, Hanns: Zischler Sondereinband, Published 2001 by Kunstmann ISBN-13: 978-3-88897-287-4, ISBN: 3-88897-287-6 |
 | | Ehebruch und andere Zerstreuungen. Aus dem Engl. von Ulrike Becker . / Goldmann ; 44665 by Tim. Parks, Becker Ulrike Paperback, 190 Pages, Published 2001 by Goldmann ISBN-13: 978-3-442-44665-0, ISBN: 3-442-44665-1 |
 | | Destino by Tim Parks, G. Granato Paperback, 276 Pages, Published 2001 by Adelphi ISBN-13: 978-88-459-1665-6, ISBN: 88-459-1665-0 |
 | | Schicksal. Tim Parks. Aus dem Engl. von Ulrike Becker(3rd Edition) by Tim : Parks, Ulrike Becker Hardcover, 288 Pages, Published 2001 by Kunstmann, A ISBN-13: 978-3-88897-257-7, ISBN: 3-88897-257-4 |