A Season with Verona
Author(s): Tim Parks
Travel Literature / Armchair Travel
Is Italy a united country, or a loose affiliation of warring states? Is Italian football a sport, or an ill-disguised protraction of ancient enmities? This book follows the fortunes of Hellas Verona football club, to pay a different kind of visit to some of the world's most beautiful cities.
Product Information
Travels around Italy in search of illusion, national character and goals 20021018
Born in Manchester in 1954, Tim Parks moved permanently to Italy in 1980. Author of novels, non-fiction and essays, he has won the Somerset Maugham, Betty Trask and Llewellyn Rhys awards, and been shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize.His works include Destiny, Europa, Dreams of Rivers and Seas and the 'Italian series': Italian Neighbours, An Italian Education and A Season with Verona.
General Fields
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- : Penguin Random House
- : Penguin Books Ltd
- : 0.378
- : 06 March 2003
- : 198mm X 129mm X 27mm
- : United Kingdom
- : books
Special Fields
- : Tim Parks
- : Paperback
- : 464
- : 30