Bücher von Jack Ross

David Foster Wallace once wrote that "every love story is a ghost story." Not all of the stories in Jack Ross's new collection are about love, but certainly all of them concern ghosts - imaginary, real, or entirely absent. As it turns out, there are even stranger things in the world: from haunted hotel rooms in Beijing to drunken poetry readings on Auckland's North Shore. Or perhaps, as the Mayan prophets foresaw, the world really did end on the 21st December, 2012, and "all bets are off, all the rules have changed, and - new Adams, new Eves - we have to find the courage somehow to start naming the strange new things we see."

?Ross, a known voluntary-action scholar, has made a place for himself in the field of voluntary association research by producing an important work of scholarship. The book is an ambitious treatment of voluntary associations from primitive societies through essentially 17th-century England.?-Choice