Italian Neighbors: Or, a Lapsed Anglo-Saxon in Verona

Tim Parks. Ballantine Books, $12 (288pp) ISBN 978-0-449-90818-1

A 10-year resident of a village close to Verona, British-born novelist Parks here celebrates the endearing and exasperating traits of his adoptive home and the ``magical duplicity'' of its people. (July)

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