Roman Letters
Published on 4. February 2007
Book
Paperback/Softback
260 pages
978-0-615-16600-1 (ISBN)
Description
Reflections on daily life, politics, restaurants, art, and history during two months in Rome. With a detailed listing of restaurants. 258 pages; b&w photos by the author.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Healdsburg
United States
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Illustrations
black & white illustrations
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 152 mm
Thickness: 15 mm
Weight
424 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-615-16600-1 (9780615166001)
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Person
The writer and composer Charles Shere was music director at KPFA-fm, announcer and producer at KQED-tv, and art and music critic at the Oakland Tribune. He has been associated with the restaurant Chez Panisse since its founding, and has published books on the composer Robert Erickson, on Gertrude Stein and Marcel Duchamp, and a number of books of travel essays. A fifth-generation Californian, he considers himself a modernist and a regionalist, with a strong interest in Place.