Encounters
Language: English
Published by New Haven: Yale University Press, 1989
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- Hardcover
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Erikson, Kai, editor. Encounters. First edition. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1989. Hardback, Good, in unclipped dustjacket in protective transparent sleeve. Orange cloth, mottled, gilt lettering to spine. Binding strong. Extended ownership inscription to ffep. xv, 163pp. Contents clean and bright. "This engaging book presents a series of word portraits by and about some of the notable figures of our time. In each chapter, a well-known person from the world of arts and letters recalls a memorable encounter with another famous individual who is no longer living" (from the cover). Details as per cover photograph. RightWayUp Books aims to provide accurate and detailed descriptions. All images are of the actual book for sale - no stock images are ever used. Thank you for looking at this listing.
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- Title
- Encounters
- Author
- Erikson, Kai, editor
- Publisher
- New Haven: Yale University Press
- Publication year
- 1989
- Condition
- Good
- Dust jacket
- Good
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0300046626
- ISBN 13
- 9780300046625
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Seller catalogs
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This engaging book presents a series of word portraits by and about some of the notable figures of our time. In each chapter, a well-known person recalls a memorable encounter with another famous individual who is no longer living.
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Writing for the Yale Review , 18 accomplished men and women--three Britons and 15 Americans--vividly recall experiences with an equal number of notable figures. John Hollander remembers W. H. Auden; Bayard Rustin works with A. Philip Randolph. Mary Lee Settle is astonished and repelled by Somerset Maugham; Quentin Bell is disappointed by that "amiable philistine" Henri Matisse; Paul Horgan is captivated by that "sly conjuror" Mary Garden; Francine du Plessix Gray is bullied by Charles Olson ("the Big O") at Black Mountain College and grows as a result. Each essay forms a combined portrait of the narrator and his or her remembered subject; the profiles, most written many years after the exchanges occurred, are illuminated by a back-lit wisdom. Readers will hope for a sequel to this volume.
Copyright 1989 Reed Business Information, Inc.
Copyright 1989 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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