Pasquale's Nose: Idle Days in an Italian Town
Brand: Back Bay Books
Color: Black
Categories: Books, Biographies & Memoirs, Historical


ISBN13: 9780316748643
Condition: New
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Dimensions: 5 x 0.58 x 8 inches
ISBN-13: 978-0275964900
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0316748641
Print length: 224 pages
Publication date: April 9, 2002
subtitle: Paperback – April 9, 2002
author: Visit Amazon's Michael Rips Page search results Michael Rips
review: Editorial Reviews Amazon.com Review In this lively book, an American expatriate tries to make a new home in a small Italian city famous for its clannish ways. He succeeds in many ways, but not without plenty of gaffes and cultural misinterpretations--all of which make Michael Rips's memoir that much funnier. "If you live in Sutri for a hundred years, you won't have a friend; if you live in Sutri for five hundred years, you'll have a friend, but you'll regret it." So runs a proverb from the Tuscan city in which Rips, a sometime attorney and full-time student of the good life, sets his narrative, a place that defies guidebook description and most of the rules of logic. There, a first-class idler in a town where no one is in much of a hurry, he encounters such figures as a diviner who heals sick tractors by touch; a Calabrian outsider who gauges people by the smell of their feet; a chef whose favorite dish is porcupine; and an illiterate postman, plus a bewildering array of secrets and strange encounters that test the innocence of our innocent abroad. Tinged with the bittersweet, Rips's extraordinary memoir will please Italian and armchair travelers alike. --Gregory McNamee About the Author Michael Rips is a fifth-generation Nebraska native. He currently practices criminal litigation in New York City. Pasquale's Nose is his first book.