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A Season with Verona: A Soccer Fan Follows His Team Around Italy in Search of Dreams, National Character and . . . Goals! Reprint Edition
Author(s): Tim Parks (Author)
- Publisher: Arcade Publishing
- Publication Date: 29 Nov. 2012
- Edition: Reprint
- Language: English
- Print length: 464 pages
- ISBN-10: 1611457335
- ISBN-13: 9781611457339
Book Description
Is Italy a united country, or a loose affiliation of warring states? Is Italian football (which we Americans know as “soccer”) a sport, or an ill-disguised protraction of ancient enmities? After twenty years in the bel paese, Tim Parks goes on the road to follow the fortunes of his hometown soccer club, Hellas Verona, to pay a different kind of visit to some of the world’s most beautiful cities, and to get a fresh take on the conundrum that is national character.
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About the Author
Tim Parks, essayist, noted translator of Italian authors, and critic, is the author of eleven novels. He lives in Italy.
