A Season with Verona
A Soccer Fan Follows His Team Around Italy in Search of Dreams, National Character and . . . Goals!
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2012
Arcade Publishing (Verlag)
978-1-61145-733-9 (ISBN)
Arcade Publishing (Verlag)
978-1-61145-733-9 (ISBN)
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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? In this title, author goes on the road to follow the fortunes of his hometown soccer club.
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.
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.
Tim Parks, essayist, noted translator of Italian authors, and critic, is the author of eleven novels. He lives in Italy.
Erscheint lt. Verlag | 20.12.2012 |
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Verlagsort | New York |
Sprache | englisch |
Maße | 152 x 229 mm |
Gewicht | 624 g |
Themenwelt | Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte |
Literatur ► Comic / Humor / Manga | |
Sport ► Ballsport ► Fußball | |
Reiseführer ► Europa ► Italien | |
Sozialwissenschaften | |
ISBN-10 | 1-61145-733-5 / 1611457335 |
ISBN-13 | 978-1-61145-733-9 / 9781611457339 |
Zustand | Neuware |
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