A chance meeting : American encounters
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Bellevue - Adult New | 920.073 C6786c | On Shelf |
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Published
New York : New York Review Books, 2024.
Format
Book
Physical Desc
xix, 393 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Notes
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references
Description
"Each chapter in this remarkable consideration of American culture evokes an actual meeting between two historical figures. In 1854, as a boy, Henry James has his daguerreotype made by Mathew Brady. We encounter Brady again as he photographs Walt Whitman and then Ulysses Grant. Meanwhile, Henry James begins a lasting friendship with William Dean Howells, and also meets Sarah Orne Jewett, who in turn is a mentor to Willa Cather... Cohen brilliantly reanimates these unforgettable pairings and those of Edward Steichen and Alfred Stieglitz; Carl Van Vechten and Gertrude Stein; Hart Crane and Charlie Chaplin; Langston Hughes and Zora Neale Hurston; Elizabeth Bishop and Marianne Moore; Richard Avedon and James Baldwin; and John Cage and Marcel Duchamp; Norman Mailer and Robert Lowell. Ultimately, Cohen reveals and long chain of friendship, rebellion and influence stretching from the moment before the Civil War through a century that had a profound effect on our own time. A Chance Meeting is an intimate and original act of biography and cultural history that makes its own contribution to the tradition about which Cohen writes."--,Provided by publisher.
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APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)
Cohen, R. (2024). A chance meeting: American encounters . New York Review Books.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Cohen, Rachel, 1973-. 2024. A Chance Meeting: American Encounters. New York Review Books.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Cohen, Rachel, 1973-. A Chance Meeting: American Encounters New York Review Books, 2024.
MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)Cohen, Rachel. A Chance Meeting: American Encounters New York Review Books, 2024.
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