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Season with Verona A Soccer Fan Follows His Team Around Italy in Search of Dreams, National Character and ... Goals!

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ISBN-10: 1611457335

ISBN-13: 9781611457339

Edition: 2012

Authors: Tim Parks

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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? 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. From Udine to Catania, from the San Siro to the Olimpico, traveling with the raucous and unruly Verona fans—whose conduct is a cross between that of asylum inmates and the Keystone Kops—Tim Parks offers his highly personal account of…    
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Book details

List price: $24.95
Copyright year: 2012
Publisher: Skyhorse Publishing Company, Incorporated
Publication date: 11/13/2012
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 464
Size: 5.75" wide x 9.00" long x 1.25" tall
Weight: 1.188
Language: English

Zoe Heller has been a contributing editor of Vanity Fair and a staff member of the London Sunday Times, the Times Supplement, Esquire, Vogue, the London Review of Books and The New York Times. Her 2003 novel, What Was She Thinking?: Notes on a Scandal, earned tremendous acclaim, including a spot on the short list for the prestigious Man Booker Prize. The audio release coincided with the 2007 film adaptation, Notes on a Scandal, starring Cate Blanchett and Judi Dench. She was born and educated in Britain and now divides her time between Brooklyn, NY and Bucks County, PA.Tim Parks studied at Cambridge and Harvard. He lives near Verona with his wife and three children. His novel Europa was…    

Acknowledgments
A Note about 'Football'
Facci Sognare
Giove Pluvio
Rigore
La Partita delle Fede
Aborti
I Magnagati
Al Vincitore
Numbers
II Verdetto del Campo
Incanto
Calendario
Lecce
La Befana
Scaramanzia
Magic
Insulti
I Pi�-mati
Puliero
Moo-too Moo-too
Paranoia
Latin Lover
Protests
San Siro
Qwerty
CD Rom
Caporetto
Credere, Obbedire, Combattere
Elections
Napoli
'Abandon all hope . . .'
Commedia dell'Arte
II Giorno del Giudizio
Complications
Reggio
Postscipt