A Season With Verona
  • Published: 1 May 2003
  • ISBN: 9780099422679
  • Imprint: Vintage
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 464
  • RRP: $29.99
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A Season With Verona

  • Tim Parks
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Travels around Italy in search of illusion, national character and goals.


'Delves into the very essence of being a fan, while seamlessly exploring Italian history, politics, culture and society,' Guardian

Is Italy a united country, or a loose affiliation of warring states? Is Italian football a sport, or an ill-disguised protraction of ancient enmities?

Tim Parks goes on the road to follow the fortunes of Hellas Verona football club, to pay a different kind of visit to some of the world's most beautiful cities. This is a highly personal account of one man's relationship with a country, its people and its national sport. A book that combines the pleasures of travel writing with a profound analysis of one country's mad, mad way of keeping itself entertained.
  • Published: 1 May 2003
  • ISBN: 9780099422679
  • Imprint: Vintage
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 464
  • RRP: $29.99
Categories:

Praise for A Season With Verona

Addictive reading...each chapter is a short story, the whole book an epic

Observer

Parks knows his football, and he knows Italy still better. His adopted country, in all its enduring and exasperating strengths and weaknesses, comes vividly to life

Sunday Times

A fascinating emotional journey... His descriptions of Italian football are descriptions of Italy itself, its regional differences, its squabbles, its distinctive temper

Daily Telegraph

An enthralling, insightful account of the real Italy

Independent