Pasquale's Nose

by Michael Rips | Travel |
ISBN: 0099422735 Global Overview for this book
Registered by RubyBlueLady of Avebury, Wiltshire United Kingdom on 3/4/2008
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Journal Entry 1 by RubyBlueLady from Avebury, Wiltshire United Kingdom on Tuesday, March 4, 2008
This is a slim paperback.

Michael Rips is a criminal lawyer who gives up his New York practice to spend a year in the 'Etruscan' town of Sutri, near Rome, where he moves - reluctantly - with his artist wife and baby.

Himself something of an eccentric from a bizarre Nebraskan family, he has spent his adult life living in hotels; and in Sutri he heads straight for the cafe in the main square. From there he observes the baroque events of small-town life, conjures up a cast of Italian eccentrics (including Pasquale and is hypersensitive organ of smell0, and relishes the weirdness and wonder of Sutri's history, folklore, architecture and above all its food.

Evoking the sights and smells of an ancient and little-known town n Central Italy and bringing people to extraordinary life, PASQUALE'S NOSE also reveals the irresistible foibles and philosophy of a talented and unusual mind.

' Rips presents his quirks at face value with hilarious, moving or unsettling effect. In tiny, glittering vignettes, Rips paints an extraordinary picture of interwoven sublimity and absurdity'
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I quite liked this book, but I like anything about Italy and the Italians. It's worth looking up the web images of Sutri on google.com as your read the book, it really helps bring the place alive. I'd love to go there.

Journal Entry 2 by RubyBlueLady at Controlled Release in Avebury, Wiltshire United Kingdom on Thursday, March 13, 2008

Released 16 yrs ago (3/13/2008 UTC) at Controlled Release in Avebury, Wiltshire United Kingdom

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Posted to lindyloumac in Italy.

Journal Entry 3 by LindyLouMac from Tywyn, Wales United Kingdom on Wednesday, March 26, 2008
Thankyou so much RubyBlueLady for this lovely RABCK which was waiting in the mailbox for me yesterday. I am really looking forward to reading this with hopefully a follow up trip to Sutri afterwards to check out the cafe etc! I will keep you posted.

Journal Entry 4 by LindyLouMac from Tywyn, Wales United Kingdom on Tuesday, May 13, 2008
This book is a quick read, only 200 pages but full of amusing anecdotes and Italian eccentrics, an interesting mix of historical fact and myth, as well as the author's reflections on life in a small hilltop town called Sutri.
Sutri is in the Tuscia, where I live, so the book was of particular interest. This region extends from Rome up to the borders of Tuscany in the north, Umbria to the east and the coast to the west. The largest city in the region is Viterbo and Sutri an attractive hill town in the countryside, is an equal distance between there and Rome. The inhabitants of the Tuscia are in general unassuming people and tend to be suspicious of ‘stranieri’ foreigners, which is probably one of the reasons that the region is still relatively undiscovered, a treasure trove of Etruscan antiquities and nature at its most beautiful.
The book is written as a series of literary sketches some of which I found amusing, others rather weird and the ones where the author tried to compare to familiar situations in the USA where he came from frankly rather boring.
One description too many for me was the recipe for horsemeat and learning that the best horse meat in Italy comes from around Sutri. Information I could have done without, even when the author goes on to say that the Sutrini’s also worship horses holding a festa in their honour!

I am glad that I read it and the next time that I visit Sutri I will certainly be looking around me to see if I can recognise any of the great cast of characters, including Gino, Dina, Vittore, Fiorina, Luciano, Romolo, and of course Pasquale who gives the book its title. I do think though that life even in Sutri may have moved on a little since 2001!
I would not recommend it unless like me you happen to be particularly interested in Italy.

I think my husband will want to read this one.
Update:23/05/08: My husband has now read this and as I cannot decide how it should travel on at the moment I am going to mark it as AVL.

Journal Entry 5 by LindyLouMac at Controlled Release, A RABCK -- Controlled Releases on Tuesday, June 3, 2008

Released 15 yrs ago (6/4/2008 UTC) at Controlled Release, A RABCK -- Controlled Releases

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Travelling to an Italian bookcrosser as a welcome to the main Bookcrossing site. I invited them to choose a title from my bookshelf as a welcome.

Journal Entry 6 by -Rob- from Chieri, Piemonte Italy on Friday, June 6, 2008
Hello!!!

Pasquale's Nose sta viaggiando attraverso l'Italia!

Thank you Lindy!

Journal Entry 7 by -Rob- at Post Office in RABCK, A Bookcrossing member -- Controlled Releases on Friday, June 13, 2008

Released 15 yrs ago (6/13/2008 UTC) at Post Office in RABCK, A Bookcrossing member -- Controlled Releases

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Sent to Supertalya in the United States!

Journal Entry 8 by Supertalya on Thursday, June 26, 2008
I just received this as a RABCK from Italia. Grazie for sharing, Rob!

Journal Entry 9 by rootmartin from Wellesley, Massachusetts USA on Sunday, May 10, 2009
Thanks, supertalya! I received this from the April YBS at bookobsessed.com

Journal Entry 10 by rootmartin at Wellesley, Massachusetts USA on Tuesday, November 5, 2019
This book has been sitting on my shelf for far too long. Dropping off tomorrow at the Town's Book Give and Take. Hopefully it will travel and be loved.

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