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Virginia Woolf thought one of the pleasures of reading contemporary novels was that they forced you to exercise your judgment. There was no received opinion about a book. You had to decide for yourself whether it was good.

Tim Parks

Into thirty centuries born, Edwin Muir began his most celebrated poem, At home in them all but the very last. Much is said about escapism in narrative and fiction. But perhaps the greatest escapism of all is to take refuge in the domesticity of the past, the home that history and literature become, avoiding the one moment of time in which we are not at home, yet have to live: the present.

Tim Parks

With books at least, the best experiences are not when you find what you were looking for, but when something quite different finds you, takes you by surprise, shifts your tastes to new territory.

Tim Parks

Tim Parks

Tim Parks

Born: December 19, 1954 (age 71)

Bio: Timothy Harold "Tim" Parks is a British novelist, translator and author.

Known for:

Italian Neighbors (1992)
Medici Money (2005)
An Italian education (1995)
A Season with Verona (2002)

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