 | |
  | |
| Searching ... |
| 0 % | ||
| Only Books by Tim Parks | X |
| Only Reprint Books | X |
  | | 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 ..." |
 | | 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 ..." |
 | | Medici Money(Reprint) Banking, Metaphysics and Art in Fifteenth-Century Florence by Tim Parks, Professor Of Literature Parks, Translation Tim Paperback, 288 Pages, Published 2006 by Profile Books ISBN-13: 978-1-86197-757-1, ISBN: 1-86197-757-3 "The Medici are famous as the rulers of Florence at the high point of the Renaissance. Their power is derived from the family bank, and this book tells the fascinating, frequently bloody story of the family and the dramatic development and collapse of their bank (from Cosimo who took it over in 1419 to his grandson Lorenzo the Magnificent who presided over its precipitous decline). The Medici faced two apparently insuperable problems: Ho ..." |
 | | 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." |
 | | Sex Is Forbidden(Reprint) A Novel by Tim Parks Paperback, 304 Pages, Published 2015 by Arcade Publishing ISBN-13: 978-1-62872-534-6, ISBN: 1-62872-534-6 "Sex is forbidden at the Dasgupta Institute, the Buddhist retreat where Beth Marriot has taken refuge. Beth has been working as a server in the kitchen, assisting the clients while also practicing meditation to calm her demons. Like the clients who pay to be there, the servers must observe the rules, and silence and separation of the sexes are chief among them.But Beth is at a crossroads in her life. She came here torn between two lovers ..." |
 | | Destiny(Reprint) A Novel by Tim Parks Paperback, 256 Pages, Published 2013 by Arcade Publishing ISBN-13: 978-1-61145-815-2, ISBN: 1-61145-815-3 "Christopher Burton, the protagonist of this masterful novel, is one of Britain's foremost foreign correspondents, the acknowledged world expert on Italian affairs. Three months after returning to London with his Italian wife for an extended stay, Burton receives a phone call at the reception desk of his hotel informing him that his teenage son has committed suicide. Why, upon receiving this terrible news, does he immediately conclude th ..." |
 | | Europa(Reprint) A Novel by Tim Parks Paperback, 272 Pages, Published 2013 by Arcade Publishing ISBN-13: 978-1-61145-698-1, ISBN: 1-61145-698-3 "At the midpoint of his life, Jerry Marlow finds himself on a bus taking him from Milan to Strasbourg. Sitting slightly off-center on the long back seat, he takes stock of the wreckage strewn behind him a failed marriage, a daughter going astray, and an affair that has left him both numb and licking every wound, self-inflicted or otherwise. Even Marlow's teaching job at the university in Milan is jeopardized by new Italian laws restricti ..." |
 | | Judge Savage(Reprint) A Novel by Tim Parks Paperback, 456 Pages, Published 2013 by Arcade Publishing ISBN-13: 978-1-61145-883-1, ISBN: 1-61145-883-8 "“A fireworks display . . . pulling off the brilliant and possibly illegal trick of being clever and gripping at once.” —The New York Times Book ReviewAlready a highly successful lawyer, Daniel Savage has just been promoted to the position of Crown Court judge—though jealous colleagues whisper that his promotion might be due to the fact that he is black. He decides that it’s finally time to settle down, forswear philandering, and rededic ..." |
 | | Hell and Back(Reprint) Reflections On Writers and Writing From Dante to Rushdie by Tim Parks, Flora Miller Biddle Paperback, 360 Pages, Published 2002 by Arcade Publishing ISBN-13: 978-1-55970-653-7, ISBN: 1-55970-653-8 "Filled with humor and insight, a vast array of thought-provoking reflections on literature and the art of writing discusses literary masterpieces from such authors as Samuel Beckett, Jorge Luis Borges, Henry Green, Christina Stead, and Giovanni Verga. Reprint." |
 | | 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 |
 | | The Marriage of Cadmus and Harmony(Reprint) by Roberto Calasso, Tim Parks, J.K.Rowling Paperback, 420 Pages, Published 1994 by Vintage Mobipocket_Ebook ISBN-13: 978-0-679-73348-5, ISBN: 0-679-73348-5 "Already an international literary event, and translated into a dozen languages, The Marriage of Cadmus and Harmony is a book without any modern parallel. Forming an active link in a chain that reaches back through Ovid's Metamorphoses directly to Homer, Roberto Calasso's reexploration of the fantastic fables we may think we know explodes the entire world of Greek mythology, pieces it back together as it once must have been, and presents ..." |
 | | Loving Roger(Reprint) (King Penguin) by Tim Parks Paperback, 160 Pages, Published 1989 by Penguin Books ISBN-13: 978-0-14-011459-1, ISBN: 0-14-011459-9 "Tight and disturbing, LOVING ROGER begins with a dead body and a chilling question. Why has nice, ordinary, affectionate Anna picked up her kitchen knife and murdered the man she insists she loves?" |
 | | Sweet Days of Discipline(Reprint) by Fleur Jaeggy, Tim Parks Paperback, 112 Pages, Published 2019 by New Directions ISBN-13: 978-0-8112-2903-6, ISBN: 0-8112-2903-3 "On the heels of I Am the Brother of XX and These Possible Lives, here is Jaeggy's fabulously witchy first book in English, with a new Peter Mendelsund cover A novel about obsessive love and madness set in postwar Switzerland, Fleur Jaeggy’s eerily beautiful novel begins innocently enough: “At fourteen I was a boarder in a school in the Appenzell.” But there is nothing innocent here. With the off-handed remorselessness of a young Eve, th ..." |
 | | The Edge of the Horizon(Reprint) by Antonio Tabucchi, Tim Parks Paperback, 96 Pages, Published 2015 by New Directions ISBN-13: 978-0-8112-2451-2, ISBN: 0-8112-2451-1 "New Directions is proud to be the publisher of the the distinguished Italian novelist Antonio Tabucchi, whose works include The Edge of the Horizon, a story of an “unimportant death,” now available for the first time in a paperback edition. Late on night, the body of a young man is delivered to the morgue of an Italian town. The next day's newspapers report that he was killed in a police raid, and that went by the obviously false name ..." |
 | | If on a Winter's Night a Traveler(Reprint) by Italo Calvino, William Weaver, Tim Parks, Martin Mclaughlin Paperback, 432 Pages, Published 2015 by Mariner Books ISBN-13: 978-0-544-57787-9, ISBN: 0-544-57787-6 "The definitive edition of Calvino’s cosmicomics, bringing together all of these enchanting stories—including some never before translated—in one volume for the first timeIn Italo Calvino’s cosmicomics, primordial beings cavort on the nearby surface of the moon, play marbles with atoms, and bear ecstatic witness to Earth’s first dawn. Exploring natural phenomena and the origins of the universe, these beloved tales relate complex scientif ..." |
 | | The Road to San Giovanni(Reprint) by Italo Calvino, Tim Parks Paperback, 160 Pages, Published 2014 by Mariner Books ISBN-13: 978-0-544-14652-5, ISBN: 0-544-14652-2 "“In each other’s presence we became mute, would walk in silence side by side along the road to San Giovanni. To my father’s mind, words must serve as confirmations of things, and as signs of possession; to mine, they were foretastes of things barely glimpsed, not possessed, presumed.” —from The Road to San Giovanni In these autobiographical essays, published after Italo Calvino’s death, the intellectually vibrant writer not only refle ..." |
 | | Numbers in the Dark(Reprint) by Italo Calvino, Tim Parks Paperback, 288 Pages, Published 2014 by Mariner Books ISBN-13: 978-0-544-14642-6, ISBN: 0-544-14642-5 "“Everybody telephones everybody at every possible moment, and nobody can speak to anybody . . . Distance has been the warp that supports the weft of every love story.” — from Numbers in the Dark Written between 1943 and 1984, the stories in Numbers in the Dark span the career of one of fiction’s modern masters: from Italo Calvino’s earliest fables, to tales informed by life in World War II–era Italy, to the delightful experimentatio ..." |
 | | The Woman of Porto Pim(Reprint) by Antonio Tabucchi, Tim Parks Paperback, 120 Pages, Published 2013 by Archipelago ISBN-13: 978-1-935744-74-0, ISBN: 1-935744-74-7 ""Triumphs of nuance and suggestion."—Chicago Tribune"Ruminative, elegiac, and mordantly funny, Tabucchi's prose conjures a state between waking and dreaming."—The New York TimesFrom "A Whale's View of Man":Always so feverish, and with those long limbs waving about. Not rounded at all, so they don't have the majesty of complete, rounded shapes sufficient unto themselves, but little moving heads where all their strange life seems to be co ..." |