9781843918035
Talking About It
Tim Parks
ISBN 13: 9781843918035
Publisher: Hesperus Pr
Publication Date: 2007
Binding: Softcover
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Book Description: Hesperus Press Ltd, United Kingdom, 2007. Paperback. Book Condition: New. 195 x 128 mm. Brand New Book with Free Worldwide Delivery. The title story of this collection, "Talking about It," presents two friends, George and Michael, meeting ritually in a pub every night after a game of squash. While George recounts his increasingly extravagant sexual experiences, Michael listens on, meditating on how to redeem his uneventful life. But one day, the tables turn, and Michael finds a way to transfix his friend's attention with a very interesting story.Whether describing the simmering warfare in an Italian condominium or the problems and pleasures of adultery, these stories reveal Tim Parks's deeply felt preoccupations with the inner workings of the human psyche and the dynamics of human relations. Tim Parks is the author of eleven novels, including Judge Savage, as well as travel memoirs, essays, and translations of Italian writers. His most recent work of nonfiction is Medici Money: Banking, Metaphysics and Art in Fifteenth-Century Florence. Bookseller Inventory # AA99781843918035 Bookseller & Payment Information | More Books from this Seller | Ask Bookseller a Question |
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Book Description: Hesperus Press Ltd 13 Nov 2006, London, 2006. Paperback. Book Condition: New. About the Author\nNovelist and translator Tim Parks is well known for his writing on contemporary Italian life. His novel Europa was shortlisted for the Booker Prize in 1997. --This text refers to the Hardcover edition. \n\nExcerpted from Talking About It by Tim Parks. Copyright 2005. Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved.\nGeorge and Michael became good friends one evening in early May. Till then they had only met through their wives, or just occasionally and casually at the lounge bar of The Mermaid, a smoky, unhealthy retreat more or less equidistant from their Holborn offices. Michael was an earnest, extrovert, nervous character and tended to make friends quickly or not at all. He had little time for careful reserved men of George's variety; true, the dapper George did possess a quick, sly wag's wit, but he would never expose himself, never confess anything, nor ever gossip about anyone else. And Michael, who lived in a whirl of chatter, self disclosure and innocent denigration, found this rather dull.\n\nHowever, with both these career executives fast approaching the day when people would refer to them as middle aged, both constantly alerted by their wives to incipient weight problems, they had rather reluctantly been persuaded to kill the rush hour together one evening a week with a game of squash in a nearby club. Hence on this particular evening they met in The Mermaid for a swift half after work and then proceeded to walk through busy streets toward the club.\n\nIt was springtime and for all the fumes the air smelt fresh and promising. The narrow streets were full of women, many of them well-dressed, some attractive, jostling from office to tube. Michael, despite all the springs that had come and gone, all the endless days he had elbowed to and from one place of work or another, was extremely susceptible to such stimuli. What's more he was presently going through a profound emotional crisis. So that as they walked into the club and found their way to the changing room, he couldn't help attempting another assault on George's reserve; and so enquired: 'Just between ourselves, you know old mate, what do you think about, well, I suppose you'd say platonic relationships? Are they, er, do you think they're really possible?'\n\nThe more compact, squarer man turned and arched thick eyebrows. 'We should manage,' he said lightly, 'if you can stop looking at my arse.' --This text refers to the Hardcover edition. Bookseller Inventory # 8cf3812325434428aa66ae6bacffec39 Bookseller & Payment Information | More Books from this Seller | Ask Bookseller a Question |
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Book Description: Hesperus Press Ltd. Paperback. Book Condition: new. BRAND NEW, Talking About It, Tim Parks, The title story of this collection, "Talking about It," presents two friends, George and Michael, meeting ritually in a pub every night after a game of squash. While George recounts his increasingly extravagant sexual experiences, Michael listens on, meditating on how to redeem his uneventful life. But one day, the tables turn, and Michael finds a way to transfix his friend's attention with a very interesting story.Whether describing the simmering warfare in an Italian condominium or the problems and pleasures of adultery, these stories reveal Tim Parks's deeply felt preoccupations with the inner workings of the human psyche and the dynamics of human relations. Tim Parks is the author of eleven novels, including Judge Savage, as well as travel memoirs, essays, and translations of Italian writers. His most recent work of nonfiction is Medici Money: Banking, Metaphysics and Art in Fifteenth-Century Florence. Bookseller Inventory # B9781843918035 Bookseller & Payment Information | More Books from this Seller | Ask Bookseller a Question |
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