Volume 53, Number 13 · August 10, 2006
The Man Who Rowed Away
By Al Alvarez
Rapids
by Tim Parks
Arcade, 246 pp., $24.00
Talking About It
by Tim Parks
London: Hesperus, 356 pp., $24.95 (distributed in the US by Trafalgar Square)
According to the bibliography on his Web site, the English writer Tim Parks has published thirteen novels, a collection of short stories, two collections of critical essays (most of which first appeared in The New York Review), a book on the art of translation, a brief history of the Medicis and their bank, and three highly personal variations on the intricate business of making a life for himself in Italy: Italian Neighbors, about setting up house in Verona; An Italian Education, about raising his English-Italian children; and A Season with Verona, a study of Italy's national obsession with soccer—an obsession Parks shares—and an account of the months he spent following his local team around the country. All this in twenty years, while holding down a university job in Milan and, as it were in his spare time, translating fifteen books from the Italian.
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