Parks begins as any traveler might: "A train is a train is a train, isn\'t it?" But soon he turns his novelist\'s eye to the details, and as he journeys through majestic Milano Centrale station or on the newest high-speed rail line, he delivers a uniquely insightful portrait of Italy.
Through memorable encounters with ordinary Italians--conductors and ticket collectors, priests and prostitutes, scholars and lovers, gypsies and immigrants--Parks captures what makes Italian life distinctive: an o.
Parks begins as any traveler might: "A train is a train is a train, isn\'t it?" But soon he turns his novelist\'s eye to the details, and as he journeys through majestic Milano Centrale station or on the newest high-speed rail line, he delivers a uniquely insightful portrait of Italy
