A Chance Meeting
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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 Ome Jewett, who in turn is a mentor to Willa Gather...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.
Author: Rachel Cohen
Format: Paperback, 384 pages, 130mm x 198mm, 360 g
Published: 2005, Vintage Publishing, United Kingdom
Genre: Historical & Mythological Fiction
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 Ome Jewett, who in turn is a mentor to Willa Gather...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.
A Chance Meeting