A Chance Meeting (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)
At a glance:
- Author: Rachel Cohen
- First Published: 2004
- Type of Work: Biography and literary biography
- Time of Work: 1854-1967
- Genres: Nonfiction, History, Biography
- Subjects: United States or Americans, Twentieth century, Authors or writers, Nineteenth century, Literature, Friendship, Poetry or poets, Novelists, Fame, Photography or photographers
Each of the thirty-six chapters in Rachel Cohen's book A Chance Meeting is an account of an association between two individuals, occasionally among three, all of them important figures in American cultural history. The title of the book is borrowed from an essay by one of these figures, Willa Cather: In “A Chance Meeting,” the Nebraskan novelist recalled meeting a niece of the French writer Gustave Flaubert in Provence. Impulsively, Cather took the lady's hand and kissed it, as if, she later wrote, thereby she could express her admiration for Flaubert and his era.
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