Family Planning

Informationen zum Autor Born in Manchester, Tim Parks grew up in London and studied at Cambridge and Harvard. He lives in Milan. Parks is the acclaimed author of novels, non-fiction and essays, including Europa , A Season with Verona , Teach Us to Sit Still , Italian Ways and Italian Life. He has been shortlisted for the Booker Prize and has won many awards for both his work in English and his translations from the Italian, which include works by Alberto Moravia, Italo Calvino, Roberto Calasso, Antonio Tabucchi and Niccolò Machiavelli. Klappentext Raymond is mad! clever! manipulative and totally out of his parents' control. The other children are lying low! though still inextricably attached to their father's purse-strings. Amidst hilarious misunderstandings and poignant inadequacies! six well-meaning people relentlessly engineer their own and their loved ones' downfall. Zusammenfassung Raymond is mad! clever! manipulative and totally out of his parents' control. The other children are lying low! though still inextricably attached to their father's purse-strings. Amidst hilarious misunderstandings and poignant inadequacies! six well-meaning people relentlessly engineer their own and their loved ones' downfall.

Product details

• Authors: Tim Parks
• Publisher: Vintage UK
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 14.11.2011
• EAN: 9780099572633
• ISBN: 978-0-09-957263-3
• No. of pages: 288
• Dimensions: 129 mm x 198 mm x 17 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; FICTION / Epistolary, Modern and contemporary fiction, Narrative theme: Love and relationships, Epistolary fiction, FICTION / Disabilities & Special Needs, Modern and contemporary fiction: general and literary