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  | | 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 ..." |
 | | Dreams of Rivers and Seas by Tim Parks Paperback, 320 Pages, Published 2009 by Vintage Books Usa ISBN-13: 978-0-09-951336-0, ISBN: 0-09-951336-6 "'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, ..." |
 | | Fighter Essays by Tim Parks Paperback, 304 Pages, Published 2008 by Vintage Books Usa ISBN-13: 978-0-09-951332-2, ISBN: 0-09-951332-3 "One of Britain's outstanding novelists, Tim Parks is also a provocative, entertaining and accomplished essayist. This new collection's title is drawn from D. H. Lawrence's fundamental belligerence, and how all the significant relationships in his life, including those with his readers and critics, were characterised by intense intimacy and ferocious conflict.Elsewhere there are literary essays on tension and conflict in the work of Beck ..." |
 | | Cleaver A Novel by Tim Parks Hardcover, 322 Pages, Published 2008 by Arcade Publishing ISBN-13: 978-1-55970-855-5, ISBN: 1-55970-855-7 "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 ..." |
 | | Cleaver by Tim Parks Paperback, Published 2007 by Isis Large Print Books ISBN-13: 978-0-7531-7663-4, ISBN: 0-7531-7663-7 |
 | | Rapids(1st Edition) A Novel by Tim Parks Hardcover, 264 Pages, Published 2006 by Arcade Publishing ISBN-13: 978-1-55970-811-1, ISBN: 1-55970-811-5 "Gathering for a kayaking vacation in the Italian Alps, six adults and nine teenagers under the leadership of the enigmatic Clive and his fragile girlfriend, Michela, experience unexpected hazards that threaten their lives." |
 | | 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 ..." |
 | | Cleaver; an 'as new', signed 1st edition. by Tim Parks Hardcover, 316 Pages, Published 2006 by Harvill Press ISBN-13: 978-0-436-20561-3, ISBN: 0-436-20561-0 |
 | | Rapids(Updated) by Tim Parks Paperback, 256 Pages, Published 2006 by Vintage Books Usa ISBN-13: 978-0-09-948138-6, ISBN: 0-09-948138-3 "In the dramatic landscape of the Italian Alps a group of English canoeists arrive for an 'introduction to white water.' Camping, eating and paddling together, six adults and nine adolescents seem set to enjoy what their leader insists on calling a 'community experience.' Their hosts are Clive, a taciturn figure, and Michela, his fragile girlfriend. Joining the group late are Vince, a banker trying to make sense of the flotsam of his exi ..." |
 | | Rapids(1st Edition) (Hardback) by Tim Parks Hardcover, 256 Pages, Published 2005 by Secker ISBN-13: 978-0-436-20559-0, ISBN: 0-436-20559-9 |
 | | 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 ..." |
 | | 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 ..." |
 | | by Italo Calvino, Martin Mclaughlin, William Weaver, Tim Parks, Patrick Creagh Paperback, 96 Pages, Published 2009 by Penguin Classics Mobipocket_Ebook ISBN-13: 978-0-14-118972-7, ISBN: 0-14-118972-X "A couple on an epicurean journey across Mexico are excited by the idea of a particular ingredient, suggested by ancient rituals of human sacrifice. Precariously balanced on his throne, a king is able only to listen to the sounds around him - sure that any deviation from their normal progression would mean the uprising of the conspirators that surround him. And three different men search desperately for the beguiling scents of lost women ..." |
 | | The Prince(Updated) by Niccolo Machiavelli, Tim Parks Paperback, 176 Pages, Published 2009 by Penguin Classics Deckle Edge ISBN-13: 978-0-14-310586-2, ISBN: 0-14-310586-8 "When Lorenzo de' Medici seized control of the Florentine Republic in 1512, he summarily fired the Secretary to the Second Chancery of the Signoria and set in motion a fundamental change in the way we think about politics. The person who held the aforementioned office with the tongue-twisting title was none other than Niccolò Machiavelli, who, suddenly finding himself out of a job after 14 years of patriotic service, followed the career ..." |
 | | D. H. Lawrence and Italy(Updated) Sketches from Etruscan Places, Sea and Sardinia, Twilight in Italy (Penguin Classics) by D. H. Lawrence, Tim Parks, Paul Eggert, Mara Kalnins, Simonetta De Filippis, Michael Frederick Herbert, Michael Squires, Anthony Burgess, Fill De Paperback, 528 Pages, Published 2008 by Penguin Classics ISBN-13: 978-0-14-144155-9, ISBN: 0-14-144155-0 "In these impressions of the Italian countryside, Lawrence transforms ordinary incidents into passages of intense beauty. Twilight in Italy is a vibrant account of Lawrence's stay among the people of Lake Garda, whose decaying lemon gardens bear witness to the twilight of a way of life centuries old. In 'Sea and Sardinia', Lawrence brings to life the vigorous spontaneity of a society as yet untouched by the deadening effect of industrial ..." |
 | | 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 ..." |
 | | Iota Literary Magazine Issue 85 Fiction 1 by Stuart Henson, Tim Parks, Damon Galgut, Jane Weir Paperback, 100 Pages, Published 2009 by Templar Poetry ISBN-13: 978-1-906285-99-9, ISBN: 1-906285-99-3 |
 | | Dreams of Rivers and Seas Exp by Tim Parks Paperback, 448 Pages, Published 2009 by Random House ISBN-13: 978-0-09-951335-3, ISBN: 0-09-951335-8 "For some time now, I have been plagued, perhaps blessed, by dreams of rivers and seas, dreams of water. Just days after controversial anthropologist Albert James writes these elusive lines to his son John, he is dead. Abandoning his girlfriend in London, John flies to Delhi to join his mother in mourning. But the nature of his father's research and the circumstances of his death are far from clear and, on top of this, John must confront ..." |
 | | Six Memos for the Next Millennium (Penguin Modern Classics) by Italo Calvino, Patrick Creagh, Martin Mclaughlin, Tim Parks, William Weaver Paperback, 144 Pages, Published 2009 by Penguin Books Mobipocket_Ebook ISBN-13: 978-0-14-118969-7, ISBN: 0-14-118969-X "Italo Calvino was due to deliver the Charles Eliot Norton lectures at Harvard in 1985-86, but they were left unfinished at his death. The surviving drafts explore of the concepts of Lightness, Quickness, Multiplicity, Exactitude and Visibility (Constancy was to be the sixth) in serious yet playful essays that reveal Calvino's debt to the comic strip and the folktale. With his customary imagination and grace, he sought to define the virt ..." |
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