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Title: Pasquale's Nose: Idle Days in an Italian Town by Michael Rips ISBN: 0-316-74864-1 Publisher: Back Bay Books Pub. Date: 09 April, 2002 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4 (9 reviews)
Rating: 2
Summary: Nice Stories: Disjointed, Sometimes Funny, Meandering
Comment: Read the rave reviews and then read the book yourself. Pasquale's Nose is a big disappointment and not tied together well, chapter to chapter. Michael Rips flits from subject to subject, character to character without developing anything enough to make you care and there is a rich seam of stories about the residents and history of Sutri to be told here. The book is unsatisfying and unfinished and attempts to be philisophical at the end with a discussion of Adam and Eve and the question "Where Are You?". Even so, I am glad I read the book because it opened up the village of Sutri, Italy -- and surrounding area -- for my further investigation. It whetted my appetite. I'll give Paquale's Nose that.
Rating: 5
Summary: Hilarious
Comment: This book had me laughing out loud. Sparsely written but very much to the point. Rips captures the Italian character precisely.
Rating: 5
Summary: Good to the last drop of espresso ...
Comment: As one of the many who has fallen in lust with Italy over a too-short visit, I found this a fun read.
The author displays a whacked-out sense of humor as he deconstructs the citizenry of a small town (large village?) north of Rome. There seems to be an unusually large number of eccentrics inside those ancient walls, and one more - in the person of Rips - just adds to the brew. He seems out of his element in the beginning, but eventually you start to think he's landed exactly where he belongs, in a sort of beign asylum where the inmates are the admissions committee.
The dry commentary reminded me of the great Ludwig Bemelmens, one of the 20th century's premier travel essayists, though sadly largely forgotten today. Maybe you've read D.H.Lawrence's accounts of travel in Italia - infuse an offbeat sense of humor and a semi-fictional tone and you'll come away with a copy of Pasquale's Nose. If you don't get to go to Italy yourself this year - or, better yet, if you do - this may be the perfect vacation read.
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Title: Extra Virgin: A Young Woman Discovers the Italian Riviera, Where Every Month Is Enchanted by Annie Hawes ISBN: 0060958111 Publisher: Perennial Pub. Date: 02 April, 2002 List Price(USD): $13.95 |
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Title: A Valley in Italy by Lisa St. Aubin de Teran ISBN: 0060926198 Publisher: Perennial Pub. Date: 07 June, 1995 List Price(USD): $13.00 |
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Title: A Thousand Days in Venice by Marlena de Blasi ISBN: 0345457641 Publisher: Ballantine Books Pub. Date: 03 June, 2003 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
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Title: Ciao, America! : An Italian Discovers the U.S. by Beppe Severgnini ISBN: 0767912365 Publisher: Broadway Pub. Date: 13 May, 2003 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
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Title: An Italian Affair by LAURA FRASER ISBN: 0375724850 Publisher: Vintage Pub. Date: 07 May, 2002 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
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