- Paperback: 232 pages
- Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers (Australia) Pty Ltd; illustrated edition edition (28 Mar 2001)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0732264472
- ISBN-13: 978-0732264475
- Product Dimensions: 23.4 x 15.3 x 1.8 cm
- Average Customer Review: 2.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 2,738,314 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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This work explores not only the author's experiences working in Australia as a soccer journalist, but also explains why he quit Australia to live and work in Italy and indulge in the holy trinity of Italian passion - football, food and politics - and explains the interrelatedness of all three.
About the Author
George Negus is one of Australian television's most respected journalists and popular personalities. He has independently produced documentaries on Russia and children's rights, served on various boards and committees including the Australian Broadcasting Tribunal's Violence Inquiry, and made innumerable television guest appearances.
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There are many travelogue type books that have been written in recent years about Italy. Living in Italy myself for the past five years and before then always having been a great fan of Italy I have read a great number of them. My husband and I both read this one and found it disappointingly boring, maybe it was just too dated having been written in 1999, or we just disliked the author's style. I am really not sure, maybe as the author is a football journalist there was just too much bias to football for my liking.
Although he makes some interesting and true observations about Italians and their life style there was nothing really that has not been said by other authors. In my opinion there are dozens of other Italian travelogues that will entertain more.
Although he makes some interesting and true observations about Italians and their life style there was nothing really that has not been said by other authors. In my opinion there are dozens of other Italian travelogues that will entertain more.
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Much different than many "my trip to Italy" books
9 Jan 2004
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As Negus is an Australian, his perspective is similar to those of other English-speakers, but definitely not the same as a lot of Americans who have written about Italians and life in Italy. I enjoy his metaphor of Football, Food, and Politics, and find it to be true, at some levels, perhaps more than one might think. The fact that I read it in 2003, and it was written during the 1999 calcio season was interesting, as it was before I was aware of much in Serie A, and it is fun to look back and compare to today.
I appreciate that Negus is observant of the Italian culture without being too 'precious' about it, and without being patronizing, which is how I found "As the Romans Do" by Alan Epstein, or by the modern day Tuscan Industry, Frances Mayes, who both find everything very simple because they have buckets and buckets of cash. I would put Negus's book in the same league as those of Tim Parks, who has lived in Italy for probably 20 years. Much like Tim Parks's book on Serie A, Negus has his feet on the ground, and is observant. These men make excellent points, and do so in a credible way.
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