- Published: 15 October 2008
- ISBN: 9780099513322
- Imprint: Vintage
- Format: Paperback
- Pages: 304
- RRP: $29.99
The Fighter
Literary Essays
- Published: 15 October 2008
- ISBN: 9780099513322
- Imprint: Vintage
- Format: Paperback
- Pages: 304
- RRP: $29.99
An impressively cogent book... For a writer so fascinated by conflict, Parks is a model of critical reason and clarity
New Statesman
Tim Parks is a master of the essay... Park's polymath pursuits here focus primarily - and bravely - on heavyweight novelists and on almost every historical, political and cultural aspect of his adoptive homeland, Italy
Independent
Parks proves sharp in both defence and attack in these essays
Financial Times
Always erudite but never forbidding, bringing an unashamedly humanist consciousness to the lives and works under consideration... Thought-provoking and often funny
Observer
You'll find plenty to enjoy in Parks's arguments, always peppered with curt humour
Eastern Daily Press
His writing is muscular but there is not street-bawling for the sake of it... He is much subtler, more perceptive than that
Guardian