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Dialogues on Consciousness
Av Riccardo Manzotti, Tim Parks
Häftad, 2020
228 kr
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Over a period of many years, the celebrated English novelist Tim Parks and the Italian philosopher Riccardo Manzotti have been discussing the nature of consciousness. Not long ago, Parks suggested to his friend that they condense their exchanges “into a series of focused dialogues to set out the …
Across Sicily with Garibaldi's Thousand
An adventure in landscape and Italian memory
Av Tim Parks
Inbunden, 2026
225 kr
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The 1860 Expedition of the Thousand, in which a group of volunteers led by Giuseppe Garibaldi sailed from Quarto, near Genoa, landing on the west coast of Sicily and advancing to its capital Palermo in a bid to liberate the island from Bourbon rule, is perhaps the defining moment of the unification …
Last Vanities
Stories
Häftad, 1998
229 kr
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"Reading time is approximately four hours. Remembering time, as for its author, the rest of one's life," said Joseph Brodsky of Fleur Jaeggy's novel, Sweet Days of Displine. Now Jaeggy has come up with seven stories, each at some deep level in dark complicity with the others, all as terse and spare …
Stop What You're Doing And Read This!
Av Mark Haddon, Michael Rosen m. fl.
E-bok, 2011
105 kr
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In any 24 hours there might be sleeping, eating, kids, parents, friends, lovers, work, school, travel, deadlines, emails, phone calls, Facebook, Twitter, the news, the TV, Playstation, music, movies, sport, responsibilities, passions, desires, dreams.Why should you stop what you're doing and read a …
Season With Verona
Av Tim Parks
Häftad, 2003
159 kr
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'Delves into the very essence of being a fan, while seamlessly exploring Italian history, politics, culture and society,' GuardianIs Italy a united country, or a loose affiliation of warring states? Is Italian football a sport, or an ill-disguised protraction of ancient enmities?Tim Parks goes on …
Italian Neighbours
An Englishman in Verona
Av Tim Parks
Häftad, 2001
165 kr
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"Am I giving the impression that I don't like the Veneto? It's not true. I love it. But like any place that's become home I hate it too."How does an Englishman cope when he moves to Italy - not the tourist idyll but the real Italy? When Tim Parks first moved to Verona he found it irresistible and …
Italian Ways
On and Off the Rails from Milan to Palermo
Av Tim Parks
Häftad, 2014
128 kr
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‘All Italy is here’ Sunday TimesFrom the bestselling author of Italian Neighbours, An Italian Education and A Season with VeronaLonglisted for the Dolman Travel Book AwardIn 1981 Tim Parks moved from England to Italy and spent the next thirty years alongside hundreds of thousands of Italians on his …
Italian Ways
On and Off the Rails from Milan to Palermo
Av Tim Parks
Häftad, 2014
180 kr
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Tim Parks’s books on Italy have been hailed as "so vivid, so packed with delectable details, [they] serve as a more than decent substitute for the real thing" (Los Angeles Times Book Review). Now, in his first Italian travelogue in a decade, he delivers a charming and funny portrait of Italian ways …
Italian Education
Av Tim Parks
Häftad, 2001
165 kr
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How does an Italian become Italian? Or an Englishman English, for that matter? Are foreigners born, or made? In An Italian Education Tim Parks focuses on his own young children in the small village near Verona where he lives, building a fascinating picture of the contemporary Italian family at …
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Literary Essays
Av Tim Parks
Häftad, 2008
135 kr
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One of Britain's outstanding novelists, Tim Parks is also a provocative, entertaining and accomplished essayist. This new collection's title is drawn from D. H. Lawrence's fundamental belligerence, and how all the significant relationships in his life, including those with his readers and critics, …
Teach Us to Sit Still
A Sceptic's Search for Health and Healing
Av Tim Parks
Häftad, 2011
165 kr
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How have the modern world, technology and our addiction to information changed who we are? What effect does it have on our relationships, minds and bodies? What can the simple act of sitting still teach us about ourselves? When Tim Parks fails to find a cause for his crippling chronic pain, he …
Sex is Forbidden
Av Tim Parks
Häftad, 2013
215 kr
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Sex is forbidden at the Dasgupta Institute. So what is the sparkling, magnetically attractive Beth Marriot doing here? Beth is fighting demons: a catastrophic series of events has undermined all prospect of happiness. Trauma leaves her no alternative but to bury herself in the austere asceticism of …
Mimi's Ghost
Av Tim Parks
Häftad, 2011
126 kr
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Morris can't get over Mimi. But then he should have thought of that before he murdered her and married her sister. Now Mimi's back, as a ghost, and she seems to be suggesting the way to redemption for Morris. He must help the poor immigrants of Verona; but if anybody should get in his charitable …
Novel
A Survival Skill
Av Tim Parks
E-bok, 2015
300 kr
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The Literary Agenda is a series of short polemical monographs about the importance of literature and of reading in the wider world and about the state of literary education inside schools and universities. The category of ''the literary'' has always been contentious. What is clear, however, is how …
Novel
A Survival Skill
Av Tim Parks
E-bok, 2015
300 kr
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The Literary Agenda is a series of short polemical monographs about the importance of literature and of reading in the wider world and about the state of literary education inside schools and universities. The category of ''the literary'' has always been contentious. What is clear, however, is how …
The Novel
A Survival Skill
Av Tim Parks
Häftad, 2015
419 kr
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The Literary Agenda is a series of short polemical monographs about the importance of literature and of reading in the wider world and about the state of literary education inside schools and universities. The category of 'the literary' has always been contentious. What is clear, however, is how …
Life and Work
Writers, Readers, and the Conversations between Them
Av Tim Parks
Inbunden, 2016
1028 kr
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In this brilliant collection, a renowned critic vividly depicts the dynamic relationships between authors, their work, and their readersAcclaimed novelist and critic Tim Parks has long been fascinated by the complicated relationship between an author’s life and work. Dissatisfied with the dominant …
Translating Style
A Literary Approach to Translation - A Translation Approach to Literature
Av Tim Parks
Inbunden, 2016
2888 kr
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Arising from a dissatisfaction with blandly general or abstrusely theoretical approaches to translation, this book sets out to show, through detailed and lively analysis, what it really means to translate literary style. Combining linguistic and lit crit approaches, it proceeds through a series of …
Translating Style
A Literary Approach to Translation - A Translation Approach to Literature
Av Tim Parks
E-bok, 2014
876 kr
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Arising from a dissatisfaction with blandly general or abstrusely theoretical approaches to translation, this book sets out to show, through detailed and lively analysis, what it really means to translate literary style. Combining linguistic and lit crit approaches, it proceeds through a series of …
Translating Style
A Literary Approach to Translation - A Translation Approach to Literature
Av Tim Parks
E-bok, 2014
876 kr
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Arising from a dissatisfaction with blandly general or abstrusely theoretical approaches to translation, this book sets out to show, through detailed and lively analysis, what it really means to translate literary style. Combining linguistic and lit crit approaches, it proceeds through a series of …
The Hero′s Way – Walking with Garibaldi from Rome to Ravenna
Walking with Garibaldi from Rome to Ravenna
Av Tim Parks
Häftad, 2026
137 kr
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In the summer of 1849, Giuseppe Garibaldi, Italy's legendary revolutionary, was finally forced to abandon his defense of Rome. He and his men had held the besieged city for four long months, but now it was clear that only surrender would prevent slaughter and destruction at the hands of a huge …
Dreams of Rivers and Seas
Av Tim Parks
E-bok, 2008
100 kr
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For some time now, I have been plagued, perhaps blessed, by dreams of rivers and seas, dreams of water.Just days after controversial anthropologist Albert James writes these elusive lines to his son John, he is dead. Abandoning his girlfriend in London, John flies to Delhi to join his mother in …
Fighter
Literary Essays
Av Tim Parks
E-bok, 2008
105 kr
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One of Britain's outstanding novelists, Tim Parks is also a provocative, entertaining and accomplished essayist. This new collection's title is drawn from D. H. Lawrence's fundamental belligerence, and how all the significant relationships in his life, including those with his readers and critics, …
Teach Us to Sit Still
A Sceptic's Search for Health and Healing
Av Tim Parks
E-bok, 2010
125 kr
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How have the modern world, technology and our addiction to information changed who we are? What effect does it have on our relationships, minds and bodies? What can the simple act of sitting still teach us about ourselves? When Tim Parks fails to find a cause for his crippling chronic pain, he …
Judge Savage
Av Tim Parks
E-bok, 2010
102 kr
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Promoted young to the position of Crown Court Judge - because of his ability, but perhaps also for certain questions of political convenience - it's time for Daniel Savage to settle down. Perhaps his marriage is happy enough after all. Teenage children require a father's attention. His career …
Rapids
Av Tim Parks
E-bok, 2010
102 kr
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In the dramatic landscape of the Italian Alps a group of English canoeists arrive for an 'introduction to white water.' Camping, eating and paddling together, six adults and nine adolescents seem set to enjoy what their leader insists on calling a 'community experience.' Their hosts are Clive, a …
Cleaver
Av Tim Parks
E-bok, 2010
102 kr
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Overweight and overwrought, Howard Cleaver, London's most successful journalist, abruptly abandons home, partner, mistresses and above all television, the instrument that brought him identity and power. It is the autumn of 2004 and Cleaver has recently enjoyed the celebrity attending his memorable …
Tongues of Flame
Av Tim Parks
E-bok, 2011
102 kr
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The gift of tongues, prophecy exorcism. . . what might such concepts mean in a complacent backwater of North London? For Richard Bowen, adolescence becomes a nightmare when his parents join the charismatic movement and find a devil in his brother.Winner of the Somerset Maugham and Betty Trask …
Loving Roger
Av Tim Parks
E-bok, 2011
102 kr
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Tight and disturbing, Loving Roger begins with a dead body and a chilling question. Why has nice, ordinary, affectionate Anna picked up her kitchen knife and murdered the man she insists she loves?... This brief novel is a mordantly illuminating essay on the way love contains the seeds of …
