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Article: Telling tales in a society of secrets INTERVIEW INTERVIEW Like the star of his latest novel Cleaver, author Tim Parks escaped from England to Italy, the ideal country to hide from things best left unsaid
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- The Sunday Herald
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- February 19, 2006
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CONTRANYMS - words which can mean the opposite of themselves - are
rarer than you might think. Cleaver, the title of Tim Parks's new
novel, is one. To cleave, says Parks, means "to cut and to cling".
Cleaver is the name he has given to his principal character, a
hotshot television journalist in the mould of a Paxman or a Dimbleby.
In his most recent interview, he made the President of the United
States look like a muppet. For Cleaver this is the fitting end to a
career in the public spotlight. Like Stephen Fry abandoning his
leading role a West End play for the obscure charm of Belgium, he
disappears to the South Tyrol in the north of Italy near the border
with Austria. Here, at 6000 feet ...
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