Guest Appearances and Other Travels in Time and Space (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780804010528)

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.

Author: Peter I. Rose
ISBN-10: 0804010528
ISBN-13: 9780804010528
Publisher: Swallow Press
Language: English
Published: 04/30/2003
Pages: 232
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.15lbs
Size: 9.14h x 7.08w x 0.86d