Italian Neighbors or, A Lapsed Anglo-Saxon in Verona; Tim Parks; "First Edition 1992" stated on copyright page; book and dust cover very good condition; Grove Weidenfeld publishers.
 
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Tim Parks celebrates ten years of living south of the Alps in this deliciously seductive account of an Italian neighborhood with a statue of the Virgin at one end of the street, a derelict bottle factory at the other, and a wealth of exotic flora and fauna in between.  More than a travel book...better described as an "arrival diary", a sparkling , witty, beautifully observed tale of how the most curious people and places gradually assume the familiarity of home...