An Italian Education

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An Italian Education is written by Tim Parks and published by Grove/Atlantic, Inc.. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 0802191142 (ISBN 10) and 9780802191144 (ISBN 13).

A "marvelous" Mediterranean memoir of an expatriate father raising his children in Italy—from the author of Italian Neighbors ( The Washington Post). Tim Parks offers another lively firsthand account of Italian society and culture—this time focusing on all the little things that turn an ordinary newborn infant into a true Italian. When British-born Tim Parks heard a mother at the beach in Pescara shout to her son, "Alberto, don't sweat! No you can't go in the sea till eleven, it's still too cold, go and see your cousin in row three number fifty-two," he was inspired to write about parenting in Italy—which he was doing himself at the time after adopting the country as his own. In this humorous memoir, Parks offers an enchanting portrait of Italian childhood that shifts from comedy to despair in the time it takes to sing a lullaby. The result is "a wry, thoughtful, and often hilarious book . . . a parable of how our children, no matter what, are other than ourselves" ( The New Yorker). "Glimpses of Italy that are fond, critical, pithy and penetrating." — The Atlanta Journal-Constitution