Publication

1998 - New Press, New York, New York (State)

Language

English

Word Count

64,000 words, Guess

Page Count

256 pages

Identifiers

and 2 more
  • LibraryThing3308346
  • Goodreads4573543

Classifications

  • DDC940/.09717
  • LCCDJK19 .S93 1998

Description

Room Service offers detailed images of the people and places of Richard Swartz's adopted slice of Europe, and thoughtful reflection on his status as a privileged outsider. We meet Serbian poets and priests in the service of war, the bewitching wife of a Romanian bigot, a Czech factory manager turned hotel porter in the wake of 1968, Ceaucescu's masseuse, the king of all the gypsies, a cantor who is the last survivor of a Jewish community, and many others - famous, infamous, and anonymous - who take their places in a fascinating, moving, and sometimes cuttingly funny history of a region at the brink of enormous change.

Subjects

People

Richard Swartz (1945-)

Genres

  • Biography.

Other Editions

  • Room service: reports from Eastern EuropeNew Press1998-01-01

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