Italian Education [Import] [Paperback]

Tim Parks (Author)

Product Details

• Paperback: 464 pages
• Publisher: VINTAGE (RAND); New Ed edition (2001)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0099286963
• ISBN-13: 978-0099286967
• Product Dimensions: 5 x 1.1 x 7.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 9.9 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #5,226,440 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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5.0 out of 5 stars Perceptive and Funny, September 24, 2011

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Carno Polo "adventure traveler" (Rome, Italy) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Italian Education (Paperback)

Tim Parks has written a highly readable and perceptive account of his life in Italy. Unlike many English authors who write about the country he does not display any sense of smugness and has no complex of superiority! In fact he has so much integrated into Italian society that one might as well say he is Italian by now! He grasps the nouances of life in Italy from the point of view of a normal person living there, not a traveler, not a tourist, not a scholar. He can even make fun of Italians without being offensive. He also appreciates much that most foreigners miss. While the book was written in the nineties pretty much everything he says is still very much true ten years on. An open window into contemporary Italy. Highly recommended.