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La Bella Figura

Beppe Severgnini

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English
Hodder & Stoughton
01 August 2008
First of all, let s get one thing straight. Your Italy and out Italia are not the same thing. Italy is a soft drug peddled in predictable packages such as hills in the sunset, olive groves, white wine and raven haired girls. Italia, on the other hand, is a maze. It s alluring but complicated. In Italia you can go round and round in circles for years. Which of course, is great fun.

Beppe Severgnini was The Economist's Italian correspondent for ten years. A huge Anglophile as well as an astute observer of his countrymen, he's the perfect companion for this hilarious tour of modern Italy that takes you behind the seductive face it puts on for visitors

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and uncovers the far more complex, paradoxical true self. Alongside the historic cities and glorious countryside, there ll be stops at the places where the Italians reveal themselves in all their authentic, maddening glory: the airport, the motorway and the living room. Ten days, thirty places. From north to south, from food to politics, from saintliness to sexuality. This witty and beguiling examination will help you understand why Italy, as Beppe says,

can have you fuming and then purring in the space of a hundred metres or ten minutes.

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Imprint:   Hodder & Stoughton
Country of Publication:   United Kingdom
Dimensions:   Height: 199mm,  Width: 170mm,  Spine: 19mm
Weight:   231g
ISBN:   9780340936030
ISBN 10:   0340936037
Pages:   288
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Audience:   General/trade ,  ELT Advanced
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active

Beppe Severgnini is a columnist for Italy's largest-circulation daily newspaper, Corriere della Sera and covered Italy for The Economist from 1993 to 2003. He is also the author of the international bestseller Ciao, America! Beppe lived in London for more than fifteen years and is a self-confessed Anglophile. He now lives with his family in Crema on the outskirts of Milan.

Reviews for La Bella Figura

'A keen observer of human nature, he watches his compatriots with amused insight... Laugh-out-loud funny.' International Herald and Tribune 'A luscious disquisition on the Italian national character' The Washington Post


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