Italian Education
by Tim Parks
List Price:
Our Price: $3.87
You Save: $10.08 (72%)
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
Buy Used: from $0.01 (click here)
Category: Book
See more book details and other editions
Book Summary Information
Author: Tim ParksEdition: Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 1996-09-01
ISBN: 0380727609
Number of pages: 352
Publisher: Harper Perennial
Book Reviews of Italian Education
Book Review: 99 and 44/100 % pure
Summary: 5 Stars
I liked the book, honestly, but I'm afraid I have to agree that this book is flawed. I don't really find it condescending the way a previous reviewer did, but I did sense a very deep disappointment, maybe even anger, that I didn't feel in the first book. I can understand this "anger", however, because , as an expatriate in Germany, I also have the same feeling towards my chosen home; it's simply not the perfect place it could so easily be, if only the Germans (in Mr Park's case, Italians) would play along. I really like Italy around Verona (I first saw this book in a bookstore in Vicenza)(a LOT cheaper through amazon.com, though) and this book gave me some more really good peeks through the keyhole. There were lots of similarities between Italy and Germany (incidentally, I'd have to strongly disagree with Mr Parks' views of Germans - they simply are not so) so not everything surprised me the way it surely would a person from New Zealand or the US. I would have loved to hear a bit about our "old friends" from the first book, too.Read this book and its predecessor. You'll enjoy them both.
Italy Books
Book Subjects
- Arts & Photography
- Biographies & Memoirs
- Business & Investing
- Children's Books
- Comics & Graphic Novels
- Computers & Internet
- Cooking, Food & Wine
- Entertainment
- Gay & Lesbian
- Health, Mind & Body
- History
- Home & Garden
- Horror
- Law
- Literature & Fiction
- Mystery & Thrillers
- Nonfiction
- Outdoors & Nature
- Parenting & Families
- Professional & Technical
- Reference
- Religion & Spirituality
- Romance
- Science
- Science Fiction & Fantasy
- Sports
- Teens
- Travel
Most talked about in Italy Books
The Lives of the Artists (Oxford World's Classics)by Giorgio Vasari
Oxford University Press, USA; Published: 1998-07-16; Paperback; Book
Best price: $36.90
D. H. Lawrence and Italy: Twilight in Italy; Sea and Sardinia; Etruscan Places (Classic, 20th-Century, Penguin)by D. H. Lawrence
Penguin Classics; Published: 1997-07-01; Mass Market Paperback; Book
Best price: $44.88
Mattanza: The Ancient Sicilian Ritual of Bluefin Tuna Fishingby Theresa Maggio
Penguin (Non-Classics); Published: 2001-07-01; Paperback; Book
Best price: $5.00
Price in other shops:
Benevolence and Betrayal: Five Italian Jewish Families Under Fascismby Alexander Stille
Penguin (Non-Classics); Published: 1993-08-01; Paperback; Book
Best price: $12.00
Price in other shops:
Rise and Fall of the House of Mediciby Christopher Hibbert
Penguin Books; Published: 1979-09-27; Paperback; Book
Best price: $4.50
Art in Renaissance Italyby John T. Paoletti
Prentice Hall College Div; Published: 1996-12-02; Paperback; Book
Best price: $13.15
Price in other shops:
The Reawakening : The Companion Volume to Survival in Auschwitzby Primo Levi
Collier Books; Published: 1993; Paperback; Book
Dream of Romeby Boris Johnson
HARPER COLLINS 0 PUB; Published: 2006-01-29; Hardcover; Book
Under the Tuscan Sunby Frances Mayes
Random House Audio; Published: 1998-01-20; Audio Cassette; Book
Best price: $0.96
Price in other shops:
Michelangelo and the Pope's Ceilingby Ross King
Penguin (Non-Classics); Published: 2003-11-25; Paperback; Book
Best price: $4.98
Price in other shops:
Similar books summaries and other product reviews
La Bella Lingua: My Love Affair with Italian, the World's Most Enchanting Languageby Dianne Hales
Broadway; Published: 2010-04-20; Paperback; Book
Best price: $8.00
Price in other shops:
Pasta and Pizza (Paradigm)by Franco La Cecla
Prickly Paradigm Press; Published: 2007-11-15; Paperback; Book
Best price: $9.13
Price in other shops:
Dirty Work: Immigrants in Domestic Service, Agriculture, and Prostitution in Sicilyby Jeffrey E. Cole, Sally S. Booth
Lexington Books; Published: 2007-03-06; Paperback; Book
Best price: $28.00
Price in other shops:
La Bella Figura: A Field Guide to the Italian Mindby Beppe Severgnini
Broadway; Published: 2007-06-12; Paperback; Book
Best price: $6.80
Price in other shops:
Italy and Its Discontents: Family, Civil Society, Stateby Paul Ginsborg
Palgrave Macmillan; Published: 2006-05-28; Paperback; Book
Best price: $24.94
Price in other shops:
Politics and Symbols: The Italian Communist Party and the Fall of Communismby Professor David I. Kertzer
Yale University Press; Published: 1998-10-11; Paperback; Book
Best price: $24.00
Italian Cultural Studies: An IntroductionOxford University Press, USA; Published: 1996-12-12; Paperback; Book
Best price: $35.99
Price in other shops:
Italian Neighbors: Or, A Lapsed Anglo-Saxon in Veronaby Tim Parks
Ballantine Books; Published: 1993-06-01; Paperback; Book
Best price: $4.00
Price in other shops:
An Italian Education: The Further Adventures of an Expatriate in Verona (An Evergreen book)by Tim Parks
Grove Press; Published: 2006-11-14; Paperback; Book
Best price: $6.54
Price in other shops:
Italian Neighborsby Tim Parks
Grove Press; Published: 2003-10-07; Paperback; Book
Best price: $4.99
Price in other shops: