| Edition |
First U.S. edition. |
| Description |
xiv, 217 pages : color map ; 22 cm |
| Note |
Col. map on end papers. |
| Contents |
Day 1: From Malpensa to Milan: The airport, where we discover that Italians prefer exceptions to rules -- The highway, or the psychopathology of the stoplight -- The hotel, where singular people are not content with a double room -- Day 2: in Milan: The restaurant, one way of sitting in judgment -- The store, the field of lost battles -- The nightspot, where foxes turn into peacocks -- Day 3: Still in Milan: The condominium, a vertical space for oblique obsessions -- The eat-in kitchen, the nerve center of domestic counterespionage -- The bedroom, the bathroom, and how hard it is to find a space of your own -- Day 4: Toward Tuscany: The train, where many talk, few listen, and everyone understands -- The museum, beautiful women on the walls -- Television, where the semi-undressed signorina acquires a cloak of significance -- Day 5: in Tuscany: The countryside, where we show that Italians are the world's leading manufacturers of emotions -- The Italian piazza, a tool with more cutting edges than a Swiss-army knife -- The window, framing fantasies that are sometimes cut short by a shutter -- Day 6: in Rome: The bank, a confrontation of confidence and cold feet -- The office, the opera house of orderly anarchy -- The shopping mall, a taste of America delivered to your door -- Day 7: in Naples: The sidewalk, or on collective individualism -- The automobile, and fumbling on the fold-down seats -- The travel agency, where the nation flexes its flippancy and pampers its patriotism -- Day 8: in Sardinia: The waterfront, the convoluted charm of a liquid frontier -- The beach, a bare outline -- The garden, seclusion in bloom -- Day 9: in Crema: The barber, the newsstand, and the town as lifebelt -- The monument. And yet it moves -- School, the workshop where shared memories are made -- Day 10: From Crema to Malpensa, by way of San Siro: The church, where we will ruminate on the moral menu -- The stadium, notes on social gastroenterology -- The horizon. In other words, give us back Columbus -- Epilogue: A letter from America. |
| Subject |
Italy -- Description and travel.
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Italy -- Social life and customs -- 1945-
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National characteristics, Italian.
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| Added Title |
Testa degli italiani. English
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| ISBN |
0767914392 alkaline paper |
| Standard No. |
9780767914390 |
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