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Room Service : Reports from Eastern Europe
Overview
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.
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Details
- ISBN-13: 9781565844186
- ISBN-10: 1565844181
- Publisher: New Press
- Publish Date: May 1998
- Dimensions: 9.59 x 6.46 x 0.99 inches
- Shipping Weight: 1.16 pounds
- Page Count: 256
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