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  | | 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 ..." |
 | | 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 ..." |
 | | Medici Money(Updated) Banking, Metaphysics, and Art in Fifteenth-Century Florence (Enterprise) by Tim Parks Hardcover, 224 Pages, Published 2005 by W. W. Norton & Company ISBN-13: 978-0-393-05827-7, ISBN: 0-393-05827-1 "The remarkable story of the Renaissance's preeminent financiers. Their name is a byword for immense wealth and power, but before their renown as art patrons and noblemen the Medicis built their fortune on banking—specifically, on lending money at interest. Banking in the fifteenth century, even at the height of the Renaissance, meant running afoul of the Catholic Church's prohibition against usury. It required more than merely financia ..." |
 | | Italian Life A Modern Fable of Loyalty and Betrayal by Tim Parks 384 Pages, Published 2020 by Harvill Secker ISBN-13: 978-1-78730-213-6, ISBN: 1-78730-213-X |
 | | Life and Work(1st Edition) Writers, Readers, and the Conversations between Them by Tim Parks Hardcover, 320 Pages, Published 2016 by Yale University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-300-21536-6, ISBN: 0-300-21536-3 "In this brilliant collection, a renowned critic vividly depicts the dynamic relationships between authors, their work, and their readers Acclaimed novelist and critic Tim Parks has long been fascinated by the complicated relationship between an author’s life and work. Dissatisfied with the dominant modes of reading he encountered, he began exploring the underlying values and patterns that guide authors in both their writing and their li ..." |
 | | 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 ..." |
 | | 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 ..." |
 | | Dreams of Rivers and Seas ****UNC PROOF***(1st Edition) by Tim Parks, Cornel West Hardcover, 448 Pages, Published 2008 by Harvill Secker ISBN-13: 978-1-84655-113-0, ISBN: 1-84655-113-7 "'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, John, in London, he is dead. 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, the nature of Albert James' research, and the circumstances of his death ..." |
 | | Talking About It (Hesperus Contemporary) by Tim Parks Hardcover, 356 Pages, Published 2005 by Hesperus Press ISBN-13: 978-1-84391-704-5, ISBN: 1-84391-704-1 "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, 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, Michael listens on, med ..." |
 | | A Season With Verona(1st Edition) Travels Around Italy in Search of Illusion, National Characters by Tim Parks Hardcover, 447 Pages, Published 2002 by Arcade Publishing ISBN-13: 978-1-55970-628-5, ISBN: 1-55970-628-7 "For the last few months Anglo-Italian novelist Tim Parks has been writing of his devotion to Italian football club Hellas Verona in The Guardian. In A Season with Verona we get a chance to read the full and absorbing narrative that lay behind those short snippets. In some ways the book is a standard travelogue. In following his lowly Series A team in their seasonal slog around Italy, Parks gets to visit all the famous sights and cities. ..." |
 | | Hell and Back(1st Edition) Reflections On Writers and Writing From Dante to Rushdie by Tim Parks Hardcover, 341 Pages, Published 2002 by Arcade Publishing ISBN-13: 978-1-55970-610-0, ISBN: 1-55970-610-4 "173 141, 2 G. Verga, Little Novels of Sicily, op. cit., p. 81 141, 8 G. Verga, Cavalleria rusticana, op. cit., p. 74 141, 9 G. Verga, Little Novels of Sicily, op. cit., p. 82 141, 9 G. Verga, Tutte le novelle, Vol. I, op. cit., p. 283 141, 12 G. Verga, Cavalleria ..." |
 | | Destiny (Hardback) by Tim Parks Hardcover, Published 1999 by Martin Secker And Warburg Ltd ISBN-13: 978-0-436-22088-3, ISBN: 0-436-22088-1 |
 | | Europa(1st Edition) by Tim Parks Hardcover, 272 Pages, Published 1998 by Arcade Publishing ISBN-13: 978-1-55970-444-1, ISBN: 1-55970-444-6 "... that she might be having a lesbian affair with my daughter, and partly because I wanted to be reassured that this was not the case, and partly because in this way I would be able to see when the girl Nicoletta came out of the Ladies and thus ..." |
 | | The Garden of the Finzi-Continis(1st Edition) (Everyman's Library Classics & Contemporary Classics) by Giorgio Bassani, William Weaver, Tim Parks Hardcover, 246 Pages, Published 2005 by Everyman's Library ISBN-13: 978-1-4000-4422-1, ISBN: 1-4000-4422-7 "Giorgio Bassani's masterwork has Vittorio de Sica's 1971 film adaptation to thank for its dual success and obscurity. Not enough people know that this tale of a middle-class Jewish youth's obsession with the far more aristocratic Micol Finzi-Contini stems from a novel, not a novelization. Bassani's doom- and tomb-ridden examination of one-sided love is far more complex--about individuals' inability to contend with personal and pol ..." |
 | | Indian Nocturne(1st Edition) (English and Italian Edition) by Antonio Tabucchi, Tim Parks Hardcover, 88 Pages, Published 1989 by New Directions Publishing Corporation ISBN-13: 978-0-8112-1079-9, ISBN: 0-8112-1079-0 "'A lot of people lose their way in India ...it's a country specially made for that.' Amid the backstreets, brothels and faded hotels of Bombay, Madras and the old Portuguese port of Goa, a man searches for his lost friend. Xavier has been missing for a year, and the only clues to his disappearance lie with an overworked doctor, a young prostitute and the leader of a strange religious order. Dreamlike, elusive and profoundly disquieting, ..." |
 | | An Italian Education by Tim Parks Hardcover, 320 Pages, Published 1996 by Secker & Warburg ISBN-13: 978-0-436-20215-5, ISBN: 0-436-20215-8 |
 | | The Marriage of Cadmus and Harmony(1st Edition) by Roberto Calasso, Tim Parks Hardcover, 403 Pages, Published 1993 by Alfred A. Knopf, Inc. ISBN-13: 978-0-394-58154-5, ISBN: 0-394-58154-7 "Presenting the stories of Zeus and Europa, Theseus and Ariadne, the birth of Athens and the fall of Troy, in all their variants, Calasso also uncovers the distant origins of secrets and tragedy, virginity, and rape. "A perfect work like no other. (Calasso) has re-created . . . the morning of our world."--Gore Vidal. 15 engravings.From the Trade Paperback edition." |
 | | The Prince (A Penguin Classics Hardcover) by Niccolo Machiavelli, Tim Parks, Coralie Bickford-Smith, Machiavelli Niccolå Hardcover, 240 Pages, Published 2015 by Penguin Classics ISBN-13: 978-0-14-139587-6, ISBN: 0-14-139587-7 "A new series of beautiful hardcover nonfiction classics, with covers designed by Coralie Bickford-Smith World-changing ideas meet eye-catching design: the best titles of the extraordinarily successful Great Ideas series are now packaged in Coralie Bickford-Smith's distinctive, award-winning covers. Whether on a well-curated shelf or in your back pocket, these timeless works of philosophical, political, and psychological thought are abso ..." |
 | | Lonely Planet Experience Italy(1st Edition) (Travel Guide) by Collectif Lonely Planet, Bonnie Alberts, Oliver Berry, Alison Bing, Abigail Blasi, Cristian Bonetto, Kerry Christiani, Gregor Clark, Douglas Cruickshank, Matthew Fort, Paula Hardy, Abigail Hole, Kate Morgan, Tim Parks, Olivia Pozzan, Brendan Sainsbury, Sarah Barrell, Simon Sellars, Oliver Smith, Tony Wheeler, Nicola Williams Hardcover, 320 Pages, Published 2018 by Lonely Planet ISBN-13: 978-1-78701-331-5, ISBN: 1-78701-331-6 "Lonely Planet: The world’s leading travel guide publisher Lonely Planet Experience Italy is your passport to majestic nature, epic journeys, cultural powerhouses and out-of-this-world experiences. We travel through buzzing cities, colourful coastal villages, rolling Tuscan hills, and grand piazzas. Discover the secrets to the perfect pizza, explore the atmospheric ruins of Pompeii, get behind the scenes of La Scala opera house, and more ..." |
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