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Guests: Or, How to Survive Hospitality: The Classic Guidebook: Or, How to Survive Hospitality: The Classic Guidebook – An Indispensable Guide for and Hosts - Softcover

Lynes, Russell

 
9780061706417: Guests: Or, How to Survive Hospitality: The Classic Guidebook: Or, How to Survive Hospitality: The Classic Guidebook – An Indispensable Guide for and Hosts
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0061706418 ISBN 13: 9780061706417
Verlag: Harper Perennial, 2009

Inhaltsangabe

Our eminent founding father Ben Franklin once famously compared guests to stinking fish. While this assessment may seem a trifle harsh, the truth remains that social intercourse is a most risky endeavor. Who better to address this concern than the inimitable pundit Russell Lynes—a man renowned for his unparalleled expertise on the social graces and the many personality types who regularly abuse them? In this classic guide to "guesting," Lynes provides an indispensable overview of the rituals of behavior that make it possible to visit and be visited, and the necessary safeguards that protect us from our friends and our friends from us. It is a book that demands to be read by every potential guest and host, stinker and stinkee alike.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Russell Lynes (1910-1991) was an art historian, cultural critic, author, photographer, and managing editor of Harper's Magazine. His articles for Harper's and Life in 1949 made parsing American culture into highbrow, upper or lower middlebrow, and lowbrow a national pastime. He wrote many books, including Snobs and The Tastemakers.

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Our eminent founding father Ben Franklin once famously compared guests to stinking fish. While this assessment may seem a trifle harsh, the truth remains that social intercourse is a most risky endeavor. Who better to address this concern than the inimitable pundit Russell Lynes—a man renowned for his unparalleled expertise on the social graces and the many personality types who regularly abuse them? In this classic guide to "guesting," Lynes provides an indispensable overview of the rituals of behavior that make it possible to visit and be visited, and the necessary safeguards that protect us from our friends and our friends from us. It is a book that demands to be read by every potential guest and host, stinker and stinkee alike.

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Verlag
Harper Perennial
Erscheinungsdatum
2009
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0061706418
ISBN 13 
9780061706417
Einband
Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
98
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