num_pages: 10
description: Tim Parks' first bestseller, "Italian Neighbors," chronicled his initiation into Italian society and cultural life. Reviewers everywhere hailed it as a bravissimo performance. Now he turns to his children -- born and bred in Italy -- and their milieu in a small village near Verona. With the splendid eye for detail, character, and intrigue that has brought him acclaim as a novelist, he creates a fascinating portrait of Italian family life, at school, at home, in church, and in the countryside. This panoramic journey winds up with a deliciously seductive evocation of an Italian beach holiday that epitomizes everything that is quintessentially Italian. Here is an insider's Italy, re-created by "one of the most gifted writers of his generation" (Jonathan Yardley, "The Washington Post")
language: English
title: An Italian Education
titlecomplete: An Italian Education
genres: Italian Literature, Autobiography, Cultural, Travel, Italy, Humor, Biography Memoir, Biography, Memoir, Nonfiction
ratings_count: 1545
series: Italy and Italians
publisher: Books on Tape