Guest Appearances & Other Travels In Time & Space

Rose, Peter I.

ISBN 10: 0804010528 / ISBN 13: 9780804010528

Published by Swallow Press, 2003

About this Item

Signed by the author on the title page. Also appears to be inscribed by the author on the front endpaper. Very good condition. Minimal wear. All intact. No writing or marking. Not Ex-Library.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Guest Appearances & Other Travels In Time & Space
• Publisher: Swallow Press
• Publication Date: 2003
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0804010528
• ISBN 13: 9780804010528
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: Very Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)
• Seller catalogs:
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  • Biography

About this title

Synopsis

Peter Rose has spent a lifetime exploring patterns of culture, examining issues of race and ethnicity, working with refugees, teaching sociology, and roaming the world. In Guest Appearances and Other Travels in Time and Space, he reflects on his adventures and the formative experiences that led him to a fascination with lives that seem quite unlike our own.

Guest Appearances and Other Travels in Time and Space introduces us to many of those whom Rose has met along the way, a cast of characters as colorful as it is diverse. It includes his music-loving mother; his tour guides in China, Germany, and Israel; Indochinese refugees he followed to the United States; the notorious murderer, Nathan Leopold; the simple tailor, Mr. David; and three writers for whom Rose has a special affinity: Philip Roth, John Updike, and Paul Theroux.

Peter Rose gives us an entirely pleasurable and insightful look into the life of an American scholar actively involved in contemporary issues as he takes readers along on his field trips and guest appearances.

About the Author

Peter I. Rose is Sophia Smith Professor of Sociology and Anthropology and Senior Fellow of the Kahn Liberal Arts Institute at Smith College. He is the author of They and We, The Subject Is Race, Strangers in Their Midst, Mainstream and Margins, and Tempest-Tost.