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Cara Massimina

Cara Massimina

by TimParks (Author)

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    Paperback 1995

    $3.26
Synopsis

Bored and broke, Morris Duckworth, an English teacher in Verona, stumbles on a plan for financial salvation - to marry Massimina, a seventeen-year-old student. And if his intentions are frustrated by a suspicious, conservative family, is it any fault of his that the lovely girl chooses to elope? Obsessed by self-advancement and excitement, Morris' dreams of blackmail, theft and murder plunge him deep into a chilling nightmare of deception and violence.

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Format: Paperback
 Pages: 240
 Edition: New e.
 Publisher: Vintage
Published: 30 Jan 1995
ISBN 10: 0749396806
ISBN 13: 9780749396800
Book Overview: A pulsating documentation of a man's descent into criminality.

Media Reviews
A triumph * Daily Telegraph *
Sharp and witty, expertly paced, frequently horrific and often very funny * Times Literary Supplement *
An unusually classy thriller, true to life and not to be missed * Independent *
Entertaining black humour * Independent on Sunday *
Tim Parks presents the real, virginal, boastful, cracked Morris lurking behind his own justifications as matters turn lethal and ugly. Clever, blandly humorous and utterly immoral. * The Sunday Times *
Author Bio
Born in Manchester, Tim Parks grew up in London and studied at Cambridge and Harvard. In 1981 he moved to Italy where he has lived ever since. He is the author of novels, non-fiction and essays. He has won the Somerset Maugham, Betty Trask and Llewellyn Rhys awards, and been shortlisted for the Booker Prize. He lectures on literary translation in Milan, and his many translations from the Italian include works by Moravia, Calvino, Calasso and Machiavelli.