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Cara Massimina

Tim Parks

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EAN: 9780749396800
Published: 30 Jan 1995

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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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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

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About the Author

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.