Tim Parks – An Italian Education (EPUB)

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Tim Parks – An Italian Education (EPUB)
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Title: An Italian Education
Author: Tim Parks
Language: English
Publication date: 1995
Publisher: Grove Atlantic
ISBN: 9780802191144
Subjects: Travel, Europe – Travel, Travel Essays & Descriptions, Italy – Travel, Europe – Travel Essays & Descriptions, Italy – General & Miscellaneous – Travel, Italy – Travel Essays & Descriptions
A “marvelous” Mediterranean memoir of an expatriate father raising his children in Italy—from the author of Italian Neighbors (The Washington Post).

Tim Parks offers another lively firsthand account of Italian society and culture—this time focusing on all the little things that turn an ordinary newborn infant into a true Italian.

When British-born Tim Parks heard a mother at the beach in Pescara shout to her son, “Alberto, don’t sweat! No you can’t go in the sea till eleven, it’s still too cold, go and see your cousin in row three number fifty-two,” he was inspired to write about parenting in Italy—which he was doing himself at the time after adopting the country as his own. In this humorous memoir, Parks offers an enchanting portrait of Italian childhood that shifts from comedy to despair in the time it takes to sing a lullaby. The result is “a wry,…

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