Italian Ways: On and Off the Rails from Milan to Palermo

Description

Product ID:	9780099584254
Product Form:	Paperback / softback
Country of Manufacture:	GB
Title:	Italian Ways
Subtitle:	On and Off the Rails from Milan to Palermo
Authors:	Author: Tim Parks
Page Count:	288
Subjects:	Literary essays, Literary essays, Italy
Description:	Select Guide Rating Through memorable encounters with ordinary Italians - conductors and ticket collectors, priests and prostitutes, scholars and lovers, gypsies and immigrants, this title captures what makes Italian life distinctive. ‘All Italy is here’ Sunday Times From the bestselling author of Italian Neighbours, An Italian Education and A Season with Verona Longlisted for the Dolman Travel Book Award In 1981 Tim Parks moved from England to Italy and spent the next thirty years alongside hundreds of thousands of Italians on his adopted country’s vast, various and ever-changing networks of trains. Through memorable encounters with ordinary Italians – conductors and ticket collectors, priests and prostitutes, scholars and lovers, gypsies and immigrants – Tim Parks captures what makes Italian life distinctive. He explores how trains helped build Italy and how the railways reflect Italians’ sense of themselves from Garibaldi to Mussolini to Berlusconi and beyond.
Imprint Name:	Vintage
Publisher Name:	Vintage Publishing
Country of Publication:	GB
Publishing Date:	2014-06-05

Weight	208 g
Dimensions	197 × 131 × 19 mm