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- catalog abstract ""In 1999 Tobias Jones immigrated to Italy, expecting to discover the pastoral bliss described by centuries of foreign visitors. Instead, he found a very different country: one besieged by unfathomable terrorism and deep-seated paranoia. The Dark Heart of Italy is Jones's extraordinary, often funny, and always revealing account of his four years on the Italian peninsula." "Jones writes not only about Italy's art, climate, and cuisine but 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 the Padrenostro (Our Father) to the 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 where it is impossible to distinguish fantasy from reality and fact from fiction."--Jacket.".
- catalog contributor b13305161.
- catalog coverage "Italy Description and travel.".
- catalog coverage "Italy Politics and government 1994-".
- catalog coverage "Italy Social conditions 1994-".
- catalog coverage "Italy Social life and customs 1945-".
- catalog created "2004, c2003.".
- catalog date "2004".
- catalog date "2004, c2003.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "2004, c2003.".
- catalog description ""In 1999 Tobias Jones immigrated to Italy, expecting to discover the pastoral bliss described by centuries of foreign visitors. Instead, he found a very different country: one besieged by unfathomable terrorism and deep-seated paranoia. The Dark Heart of Italy is Jones's extraordinary, often funny, and always revealing account of his four years on the Italian peninsula."".
- catalog description ""Jones writes not only about Italy's art, climate, and cuisine but 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 the Padrenostro (Our Father) to the Cosa Nostra (the Mafia)?"".
- catalog description ""Parole, parole, parole" -- "The mother of all slaughters" -- Penalties and impunity -- The Sofri case -- The means of seduction -- Pietra and parola -- "Fewer taxes for everyone" -- Forzismo -- Penisola felice.".
- catalog description ""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 where it is impossible to distinguish fantasy from reality and fact from fiction."--Jacket.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. [301]-306) and index.".
- catalog extent "xx, 314 p. ;".
- catalog identifier "0865477000 (hardback : alk. paper)".
- catalog issued "2004".
- catalog issued "2004, c2003.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "New York : North Point Press,".
- catalog spatial "Italy Description and travel.".
- catalog spatial "Italy Politics and government 1994-".
- catalog spatial "Italy Social conditions 1994-".
- catalog spatial "Italy Social life and customs 1945-".
- catalog spatial "Italy".
- catalog subject "945.093 22".
- catalog subject "Berlusconi, Silvio, 1936-".
- catalog subject "DG430.2 .J66 2004".
- catalog subject "Jones, Tobias Homes and haunts Italy.".
- catalog subject "Political corruption Italy History.".
- catalog tableOfContents ""Parole, parole, parole" -- "The mother of all slaughters" -- Penalties and impunity -- The Sofri case -- The means of seduction -- Pietra and parola -- "Fewer taxes for everyone" -- Forzismo -- Penisola felice.".
- catalog title "The dark heart of Italy / Tobias Jones.".
- catalog type "History. fast".
- catalog type "text".