A Season with Verona: Travels Around Italy in Search of Illusion, National Character, and ... Goals! (Paperback)
Short Description for A Season with Verona Is Italy a united country, or a loose affiliation of warring states? Is Italian football (which we Americans know as "soccer") a sport, or an ill-disguised protraction of ancient enmities? In this title, author goes on the road to follow the fortunes of his hometown soccer club.
Full description- Publisher: Arcade Publishing
- Published: 15 November 2012
- Format: Paperback 464 pages
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- Categories: Memoirs | Humor | Sport | Football (Soccer, Association Football) | Guidebooks | Travel Writing
- ISBN 13: 9781611457339 ISBN 10: 1611457335
- Sales rank: 624,629
Full description for A Season with Verona
Is Italy a united country, or a loose affiliation of warring states? Is Italian football (which we Americans know as "soccer") a sport, or an ill-disguised protraction of ancient enmities? After twenty years in the bel paese, Tim Parks goes on the road to follow the fortunes of his hometown soccer club, Hellas Verona, to pay a different kind of visit to some of the world's most beautiful cities, and to get a fresh take on the conundrum that is national character.
