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About This Book
ISBN13: 9780865477001 |
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Publisher Comments:
Jones writes not just about Italy's art, climate, and cuisine but also about the much livelier and stranger sides of the Bel Paese: the language, soccer, Catholicism, cinema, television, and terrorism. Why, he wonders, does the parliament need a "slaughter commission"? Why do bombs still explode every time politics start getting serious? Why does everyone urge him to go home as soon as possible, saying that Italy is a "brothel"? Most of all, why does one man, Silvio Berlusconi--in the words of a famous song--appear to own everything from Padre Nostro (Our Father) to Cosa Nostra (the Mafia)?
The Italy that emerges from Jones's travels is a country scarred by civil wars and "illustrious corpses"; a country that is proudly visual rather than verbal, based on aesthetics rather than ethics; a country where crime is hardly ever followed by punishment; a place of incredible illusionism, where it is impossible to distinguish fantasy from reality and fact from fiction.
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Product Details
- ISBN:
- 9780865477001
- Publisher:
- North Point Press
- Location:
- New York
- Author:
- Subject:
- Italy
- Subject:
- Europe - Italy
- Subject:
- Political corruption
- Edition Description:
- American
- Series Volume:
- 9
- Publication Date:
- 20040609
- Binding:
- HC
- Language:
- English
- Pages:
- 336
- Dimensions:
- 8.32x5.86x1.10 in. 1.11 lbs.











