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Fatelessness
Imre Kertesz
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ASIN: 1400078636
Release Date: 2004-12-07 |
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At the age of 14 Georg Koves is plucked from his home in a Jewish section of Budapest and without any particular malice, placed on a train to Auschwitz. He does not understand the reason for his fate. He doesn’t particularly think of himself as Jewish. And his fellow prisoners, who decry his lack of Yiddish, keep telling him, “You are no Jew.” In the lowest circle of the Holocaust, Georg remains an outsider.
The genius of Imre Kertesz’s unblinking novel lies in its refusal to mitigate the strangeness of its events, not least of which is Georg’s dogmatic insistence on making sense of what he witnesses–or pretending that what he witnesses makes sense. Haunting, evocative, and all the more horrifying for its rigorous avoidance of sentiment,
Fatelessness is a masterpiece in the traditions of Primo Levi, Elie Wiesel, and Tadeusz Borowski.
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Easy to read dispite the difficult Subject.......2006-08-15
A difficult subject to say the least is handled in such a way as to make the reader feel that they lived it too. The writing is crisp and clear in its desciption and it drewas you right into the story.
An Existentialist in Hell.......2005-11-22
I read the 1992 translation by Christopher and Katharina Wilson. Originally written in Hungarian, this fictionalized memoir of a young Jewish teenage boy's year in Auschwitz and Buchenwald toward the end of the war brilliantly succeeds in giving the reader an intimate look at human beings in the camps. Georg Koves is a sensitive, intelligent 14-year-old who loves his friends, wants to do well, and is an obedient son. We see him in this account at first surrounded by family, his uncles, his grandparents, and the neighbors as they all gather one evening to comfort his father and say goodbye to him. Georg's father has been ordered to a labor camp, and one day, two months later, he too, along with his friends, is transported to Auschwitz, where he is picked, after a two-second exam, as a laborer. Georg narrates his experience thereafter almost in a Kafkaesque matter-of-fact fashion, always attempting to find a rationale for the actions of the camp leaders and the German officers. He describes the people around him in realistic detail and as steadying presences who slowly vanish. After weeks and months of boredom and routine and deprivation, he realizes that his body is turning against him. Georg is a consciousness in these awful places that could easily be anyone's, and that is what makes this account so chilling. The reader watches Georg's awful world from within. Georg's stance is the following: "...we begin something new with the best of intentions--even in a concentration camp." He also sees the events around him as "givens," not as punishment or fate. He is an existentialist in hell. This book is disturbing in its realism, moving in its detail, unique in its coldly rational narration, and chilling in its immediacy. I highly recommend it to anyone wanting to know how some people lived through the worst atrocities the human race has ever known.
Attention: Only read the new translation by Tim Wilkinson.......2005-10-15
Anyone who reads the poor first translation of Fateless and the shamefully bad translation of Kaddish cannot even get close to the true spirit of the original works.
Thanks to Tim Wilkinson English speakers can finally enjoy these excellent books.
Look for the titles "Fatelessness" and "Kaddish for an Unborn Child", both translated by Wilkinson. These new editions are at last worthy of the originals and the Nobel Prize.
(See also October 16, 2002 review by Marton Sass)
A movie based on the novel Fateless is also out with English subtitles; don't miss it, if you have a chance. Beautiful work.
Life in not so usual prison.......2005-02-10
Many sentient being out there, who was, even remotely aware of something we human called World War II, aked himself, why? And, as tragedy dictates, found no answer. It came even to that, that one has to ask himself, can there, after all, rational answer be possible. And answer to that questions eludes many today.
Written by a Hungarian nobel prize winner, who served his time in concentration camps, this book doesen't provide an answer. Neither i t intenede to provide them. Instead, it deliver another set of questions. Questions that are interesting, highly depressive and lucid. Though you may find it's scarry logic rather unatractive, you'll have to stop and ask yourself, can he be right. And if the answer is positive, what conclusion does it give to us, and do we really want to accept it.
This is excellent writing, one you shouldn't skip or let it pass you by. Every culture out there, and every individual should be aware of this book. Perhaps then, we could be able to deny truthfulness of the "History repeats itself" sentence.
Of Freedom and of Life he Only is Deserving.......2005-01-08
Who every day must conquer them anew.
These words of Goethe provide the emotional context within which I experienced Imre Kertész' masterful novel Fateless.
Kertesz was an assimilated Hungarian-Jew living in relative comfort in Budapest. In the summer of 1944 he was picked up and shipped to Auschwitz. He was fourteen years old. He was transferred from Auschwitz to Buchenwald, from Buchenwald to Zeitz (a lesser-known concentration camp) and then back to Buchenwald. He was liberated a year later and returned to Budapest.
The life of György (George) Köves, the protagonist of Fateless, tracks the experiences of Kertesz. The novel is written in George's voice and we see the world through his recollection of events. (Kertesz has indicated in interviews that although Fateless takes the form of an autobiographical novel it is not an autobiography but a work of fiction.) George is a relatively care free, naive 14 year old leading a middle class life with his family. As the story opens, the family is preparing to say goodbye to George's father who is being sent to a labor camp. I was struck immediately by George's detachment as these early events unfold. George obtains a job at a factory. This provides him with a pass out of his neighborhood although he is still required to wear a yellow star identifying him as Jewish. One morning, on the way to work, he is swept up along with thousands of others and is sent on his journey into the seven layers of hell known as concentration camps. The rest of novel details George's experiences in the camps, his gradual physical deterioration that leaves him near death, the chain of events that kept him alive, his liberation and his eventual return to Budapest.
I expected that any book that had the Holocaust as a central theme would be filled with vivid descriptions of the horrors found there and the emotional turmoil that any prisoner experienced. In fact, the opposite was the case. George's narrative is, until the very end, devoid of emotion. It consists of a spare, narrative recitation of events. I think the book was all the more chilling and had a greater emotional impact as a result. No words can adequately describe the horrors and misery and Kertesz does not really try. Rather, the emotion is inferred from the factual context. At one point, George finds a mirror and looks at his image. He sees in himself the gaunt vision of shuffling prisoners that met him on his arrival at the camps. He doesn't complain, he simply observes. The observation is stunning not for its emotional content but for the very fact of it.
I was also struck by the irony expressed in many of Kertesz' passages. George, like Kertesz, was not particularly religious nor did he speak the lingua franca of many European Jews, Yiddish. Despite his presence in the camp he was rejected by many of his fellow prisoners because he was not, in their eyes, sufficiently Jewish. He didn't know Yiddish nor did he know enough Hebrew to recite the Kaddish, a prayer for the dead. George's camp experience was one of double isolation.
George's emotions only rise to the surface upon his return to Budapest after liberation. He is on a trolley, filthy and malnourished. He can feel the scorn and snickering of his fellow passengers and seethes with anger, an emotion seemingly permitted to enter into his life now that his freedom is assured. He returns to his family apartment only to find that it has been appropriated by another family. His family and friends tell him to put the camps into his past, but he can't, it is an experience that will never be `in the past'. Kertesz, in his Nobel Prize lecture sums it up thusly: "By which I mean that nothing has happened since Auschwitz that could reverse or refute Auschwitz. In my writings the Holocaust could never be present in the past tense."
The novel ends with George pondering the meaning of life and fate. He posits that those that accept fate can never be free and those seeking freedom cannot do so if the live by the axiom "it is written". The closing puts George's whole camp experience in a new perspective. Some struggle outwardly for freedom. George's struggle was completely internalized. His struggle for life itself was a struggle to be free. As the Russian novelist Vasily Grossman asserted in his book Forever Flowing, "there remained alive and growing one genuine force alone, consisting of one element only - freedom. To live meant to be a free human being."
The story of George Koves is the story of a young boy who struggled every Day for freedom and for life and conquered them anew. It is a powerful book and one that I cannot recommend too highly.
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Growing up trapped by her father's wealth, awkward Ty Stannard found freedom on horseback. A talented equestrian, she yearned to ride as well as her idol, champion Steve Sheppard. Worshiping the handsome Kentuckian, she treasures the lucky medallion he gives her the day they chance to meet. But then a nasty fall changes everything, and Ty is forced to leave her dreams behind.
Now a beautiful woman, determined to live life on her own terms, Ty learns that Steve stands on the brink of ruin. Moved by memories of his kindness to her, she offers him financial backing, but Steve perceives only a selfish socialite amusing herself at his expense. In a daring move, he challenges Ty to be not only a financial partner -- but a full-time farmhand as well, expecting she'll tire of the hardships of a working stable. To Steve's surprise, Ty takes up his challenge.
As they rebuild Southwind, Steve's beloved stable, they find unexpected strength and comfort in each other -- and a passion neither can deny. But their fragile love will be tested by not only those who seek to destroy what they have built, but also the insecurities and doubts that shadow their own very vulnerable hearts.
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Growing up trapped by her father's wealth, awkward Ty Stannard found freedom on horseback. A talented equestrian, she yearned to ride as well as her idol, champion Steve Sheppard. Worshiping the handsome Kentuckian, she treasures the lucky medallion he gives her the day they chance to meet. But then a nasty fall changes everything, and Ty is forced to leave her dreams behind. Now a beautiful woman, determined to live life on her own terms, Ty learns that Steve stands on the brink of ruin. Moved by memories of his kindness to her, she offers him financial backing, but Steve perceives only a selfish socialite amusing herself at his expense. In a daring move, he challenges Ty to be not only a financial partner -- but a full-time farmhand as well, expecting she'll tire of the hardships of a working stable. To Steve's surprise, Ty takes up his challenge. As they rebuild Southwind, Steve's beloved stable, they find unexpected strength and comfort in each other -- and a passion neither can deny. But their fragile love will be tested by not only those who seek to destroy what they have built, but also the insecurities and doubts that shadow their own very vulnerable hearts.
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Tremendous!.......2004-06-18
For those of us adult horse lovers, this book is not to miss! There are too few authors out there that weave one of our life passions into words.
Well written with good horsey detail.......2002-11-07
I really enjoyed this book. It's well-written in general, and has a terrific background in the American "A" hunter-jumper circuit. The author clearly knows her horses, because the details are unusually accurate, which makes it a pleasure to read if you're a horse lover. (Her other novel, Ride a Dark Horse, is similarly excellent.)
The romance is fun and pleasantly steamy, and the characters stay pretty smart throughout - there are no painfully stupid moments to read through. There are occasional plot conveniences (in particular Ty would've been very well known on the circuit) but none too jarring.
I especially liked the scene with the car keys.
I'm glad I bought it..........2002-04-16
I stumbled across this book while shopping, and I'm just sorry Laura Moore doesn't have more books in print. I enjoyed "Ride a Dark Horse", but I liked this one even more. If you haven't already read it, you should give it a try. I think you'll like it. I just can't wait for Laura's next book to come out...
Great Chance for a wonderful read.......2001-11-25
This author's first novel,Ride A Dark Horse was very good, but this book is my favorite, it leaves me looking forward to this new author's next book. The story was well paced and kept my interest very high. I was sorry that it ended...not many books do that. I am giving it a hostess gifts this holiday season.
Loved the book!!.......2001-10-31
I loved Chance Meeting and am looking forward very much to the next book. Could it be about Lizzie and Sam?
I enjoyed how the characters from Ride a Dark Horse were tied into this book. It only took me four hours to read it, it was that good. I am a horse owner and I love to read so naturally I look for the "horsey" romances. I hope to see many more from Laura Moore!
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Each chapter of this inventive consideration of American culture evokes an actual meeting between American writers and artists, from Henry James and Mathew Brady, to Mark Twain and Ulysses S. Grant, to Elizabeth Bishop and Marianne Moore, to Norman Mailer and Robert Lowell. The accumulation of these pairings draws the reader into the mysterious process by which creativity has been sparked and passed on, from the Civil War through the civil rights movement.
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An Intimate Portrait of Various Artists.......2007-01-20
Much like her narrative, Cohen's eyes draw the reader into her own world from the surface of her dustjacket. And what is that world? A world of intimiate connections expressed through the smallest of gestures and the shortest of moments. It is obvious from reading A Chance Meeting that Cohen has entwined herself with each and every one of her subjects to become their close friend, despite being decades away from meeting them in person. That doesn't stop her, however, from creating a wonderful narrative of shared moments and chance meetings between various artists of the early 20th Century. Whether those actors or authors managed to sustain a relationship for years, or merely sense each other from across the room, doesn't matter as Cohen has an art for deeply plumbing each character's soul to see the impact that such meetings have upon their decisions. Not every one is moved by such small encounters as an introduction, but Cohen pieces together a rich tapestry of influential artists, each of which motivated another through such moments, and does a fine job of it. Finally, one gets to see the authors completely naked, instead of through the rough hewn lens of their work.
Past Cultural Icons Lead the Way on their Inter-connected Path.......2006-06-08
Everything the editorial reviews say about "A Chance Meeting" is all true. Rachel Cohen has placed 30 major American cultural figures--writers and artists--in 36 intertwined encounters ranging more than a century (1854-1967) that reads like a cross of a gossipy letter home (back when we did that) and carefully thought-out commentary and conjecture.
This book is not only an informative, fun, and thought-provoking read--for artists and writers, it is a well of companionship. Have you ever been lonely in your studio or study as you created? Have you ever been broke, searching for that next fellowship or contract? Have you ever been inspired by a chance meeting of a fellow/sister artist and writer? Did you ever wonder what pleasures and problems fame might bring? These and many other questions are answered in these rich encounters.
Authors and artists I've studied are presented here as human beings working to remain human while they create their work. This is a tremendous guidebook not only for lovers of cultural history, but also for current makers of culture.
--Janet Grace Riehl, author "Sightlines: A Poet's Diary"
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- Excellent Book About Artists in America
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A Chance Meeting: Intertwined Lives of American Writers and Artists, 1854-1967
Rachel Cohen
Manufacturer: Random House
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ASIN: 1400061644
Release Date: 2004-03-09 |
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“They met in ordinary ways,” writes Rachel Cohen in her introduction, “a careful arrangement after long admiration, a friend’s casual introduction, or because they both just happened to be standing near the drinks. . . . They talked to each other for a few hours or for forty years, and later it seemed to them impossible that they could have missed each other.”
Each chapter of this inventive consideration of American culture evokes an actual meeting between two historical figures. In 1854, Henry James, as a boy, goes with his father to have a daguerreotype made by Mathew Brady and is captured in a moment of self-consciousness about being American. Brady returns to photograph Walt Whitman and, later, at City Point in the midst of the Civil War, Ulysses S. 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. Mark Twain publishes Grant’s memoirs; W.E.B. Du Bois and his professor William James visit the young Helen Keller; and Edward Steichen and Alfred Stieglitz argue about photography. Later, Carl Van Vechten and Gertrude Stein, who was also a student of William James’s, attend a performance of The Rite of Spring; Hart Crane goes out on the town with Charlie Chaplin; Langston Hughes and Zora Neale Hurston write a play together; Elizabeth Bishop takes Marianne Moore, who was photographed by both Van Vechten and Richard Avedon, to the circus; Avedon and James Baldwin collaborate on a book; John Cage and Marcel Duchamp play chess; and Norman Mailer and Robert Lowell march on the Pentagon in the anti–Vietnam War demonstration of 1967. The accumulation of these pairings draws the reader into the mysterious process through which creativity has been sparked and passed on among iconoclastic American writers and artists.
Ultimately, Rachel Cohen reveals a long chain of friendship, rebellion, and influence stretching from the moment just before the Civil War through a century that had a profound effect on our own time. Drawing on a decade of research,
A Chance Meeting makes its own illuminating contribution to the tradition of which Cohen writes.
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A SUCCESSFUL VENTURE IN HISTORICAL IMAGINING.......2005-11-12
Rachel Cohen's A Chance Meeting: Intertwined Lives of American Writers and Artists 1854-1967 is an exceptional work of literary detection and interpretation. In thirty-six chapters, Cohen narrates a set of encounters of distinguished American literati and artists across the span of 113 years, laying out changes in the preoccupations and sensibilities of American writers and artists in the century that followed the Civil War. Some meetings are brief, even one-time, and peripheral to the protagonists' lives as, for instance, the Henry James, still a child, sitting with his father for a photograph by Matthew Brady, or William Dean Howells' one-time meeting with Walt Whitman, or Richard Avedon's photo shoot of modernists Merce Cunningham, John Cage, and Robert Rauschenberg. The meeting of James and Brady is also a "might have been" meeting, for Cohen takes a daring chance to capture and describe James's literary and intellectual sensibility on the brink of radical change. Other chapters describe longer standing relationships -Mark Twain and Ulysses S. Grant, Edward Steichen and Alfred Steiglitz, Joseph Cornell and Marianne Moore, Hart Crane's disastrous stay in Mexico with Katherine Anne Porter, the complicated father and son relationship of W. E. B. Du Bois and Langston Hughes, the advance-retreat relationship between Hughes and Zora Neale Hurston.
This is not a book of strict factual history (although nothing in it runs counter to what can be proved using historical methods) but rather a book of rich historical sensitivity that illuminates a critical period in the maturing of our country's literature and art. It is written with exceptional grace: each chapter can be read separately without loss in pleasure or comprehension. This is a bold venture that deserves a wide readership.
The reader who enjoys A Chance Meeting may also enjoy Louis Menand's The Metaphysical Club: A History of Ideas in America (which I am reading right now).
Excellent Book About Artists in America.......2004-06-24
This is a collection of essays about the private lives of important American authors and artists. Cohen's essays are based almost entirely on secondary works and begin with 19th Century authors and artists and then continue on through the 20th Century.
These essays are written in such a way that you get a feel for the kind of folks that these artistic types actually were. The reader learns all sorts of interesting things about these people such as their vices, lusts and secret desires.
This is an excellent book about the history of artistic endeavor in America.
Relax and Set Sail on Artistic Adventures with a Noble Cast.......2004-06-09
Rachel Cohen has created a diversion in A CHANCE MEETING: INTERTWINED LIVES OF AMERICAN ARTISTS, 1854 - 1967 that is more a series of illuminated daydreams than it is a sourcebook for biographical data on the important artists in American over a century spanning 1860s through 1960s. No, this is not a code of secretive encounters between unlikely and disparate writers, photograpahers, and artists, nor is it a professed series of inside stories meant to reveal the truths about those we deem as gifted. Cohen writes splendidly, and though she documents with copious bibliography and chapter notes the instances she encountered in her survey of 'chance meetings ' by a diversity of disparate artists, she seems more intent on using fact as springboard to create cadenzas of intricately woven possibilities to stimulate the reader to enter the wonderful world of 'what if?' than in declaring new-found discoveries of data/gossip.
Here in short and terse chapters we meet Matthew Brady, Walt Whitman, Henry James, Marcel Duchamp, Langston Hughes, Hart Crane, Mark Twain, Willa Cather, Alfred Steiglitz with and without Georgia O'Keefe, Charlie Chaplin, Richard Avedon, Gertrude Stein with and without Alice B. Toklas, etc., etc. - you get the picture. The joy of Cohen's writing is the possibilities created by perseverating on the conversations that might have occurred among these people, whether in duet or in orchestrated outcome. My bet is that if the casts of characters here discussed were to read these informative and provocative pages, they doubtless would smile, swoon, curse, or laugh, but in some way react to the vision and imagination of Rachel Cohen. This is a delightful book for devout readers and lovers of artistic history. There is so much to learn about artists who even today are on the periphery as well as the giants we all 'think' we know! This wonderful book is for relaxation and diversion and the rewards are many.
William Dean Howells liked blueberry cake.......2004-04-19
A CHANCE MEETING, divided into into 36 short chapters, contains stories of the relationships between noted writers and artists from just before the Civil War to the late 1960s. Most of the chapters are framed around a single meeting, but contain digressions which sometimes encompass other famous figures.
What are we to make of this unique, celebratory, and quite often infuriating work? Each chapter is backed up by Rachel Cohen's source notes, detailing the basis for the events and behavior described. Yet, throughout the book there's a curiously speculative tone, Cohen describes many of her beloved figures as "maybe" doing or thinking this or that. In the opening chapter, Henry James (then a young boy) is described as feeling a "persistent uneasiness" while eating ice cream after having his portrait taken by Matthew Brady. Cohen notes this episode is invented, but then one must ask, "Why is this important?" Surely a book very much like this could have been written without such flights of fancy?
Indeed, several chapters fail to coalesce at all. In a chapter on Willa Cather and Sarah Orne Jewett, Cohen asserts that the fact Cather did NOT meet Henry James changed the artistic direction of her career. How can this be proven? In most of these vignettes, no direct suggestion is made of how the characters influenced each other. Cohen is edging away from history and criticism and dangerously close to short fiction here. The book picks up in the last third, with some gossipy stuff about Robert Lowell and Elizabeth Bishop and a funny scene of Marianne Moore and Muhammad Ali together, but the whole thing is much too ephemeral. The photographer Richard Avedon provided several photos - he's thanked in the acknowledgements - but did he deserve to be included in the title of several chapters? It's not as if the people he photographed (Langston Hughes and Carl Van Vechten, for example) hadn't met before.
A suggestion: read some of the books Cohen sites in her bibliography instead of A CHANCE MEETING.
Comfort Reading.......2004-04-19
What an exhilierating experience! I savored these 36 essays over a few weeks, reading only a handful a night before I went to bed. The book is just beautiful; there is no other word to describe the writing, tone, and voice of Rachel Cohen's book.
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This book shares the beauty of chance meetings that are testaments to living life, rather than being a bystander. These stories are from people of all ages. Each meeting ultimately leads to a lasting and meaningful relationship. Chance Meetings that Tied the Knot helps to empower women and men to look at life as center stage, when everyday experiences can be creative and fulfilling. Just like a wonderful recipe, the ingredients of true and enduring love are available to everyone. The key is the recipe. A marriage and family psychologist once said, "If people would learn to trust themselves, change their surroundings, and take a chance on life, more meaningful relationships would be developed." Treat these stories as little gifts. Each is to be cherished. These vignettes hold the seeds of love that have grown and matured as time passes. And just like history, these situations repeat themselves bringing the chance for love into everyone's life.
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A great book for moms and daughters!.......2006-11-08
This is a fun and engaging book to read, with short chapters that can be enjoyed in just a few minutes. Each story has a postive learning experience for all ages. I purchased the book as a gift for my 10 year old daughter, and we enjoy reading a chapter a night together. After each chapter, we talk about what happened in the story and why. It's a great way for the two of us to discuss the nuances of making friends, complicated or ethical choices, and how to make the best decisions about personal relationships. Then, I sometimes share personal stories from my own life. The book's stories take about ten minutes to read out loud, but the good mom-daughter conversations can go on for hours!
Yahoo has published a "Chance Meetings" self-quiz for men and women. It's an insightful way to learn about your own personality; the relationship risks you would be willing to take with "chance meetings" in your own life. Try it and share it with those you love! [...]
wonderful read.......2006-03-23
I love the book. My two favorite storie are Lorrie's lesson and Betsy's story.
i think the format is extremely clever - especially with the lessons at the end of each story. and it's wonderful to have an uplifting book - such a validation of life!
A Must Read.......2006-02-01
This book is a must for all Valentine's. February 14th is the prefect time to remind us about love and Ms. Newman does so in a most charming way.
Warm, Fuzzy and Loving.......2006-01-27
Jan Newman's book is a compilation of wonderfully charming stories of how you can meet your True Love in all the funniest and chanciest places. For those of you not sure when he/she will arrive on your doorstep, Jan reveals how you will least expect it and there it will be. A MUST READ for everyone who loves LOVE, and realizes how serendipitous Life and Love is.
inspirational reading that gives hope to those looking for love.......2006-01-22
Chance Meetings is a book that will inspire anyone who is feeling hopeless about finding love as well as those who have been successful. The individual accounts of how people "accidentally" or "fatefully" found their soul mates is not only entertaining to read but will make you think twice about whether destiny rules in our love lives or if we rule destiny. Fun to read and insightful- a must for anyone, male or female, who is looking for love or has found it.
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Simon the crossbearer: A family is affected by their father's chance meeting with the Savior (Starlight books)
Harry J Cargas
Manufacturer: Concordia Pub. House
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And the Goat Cried: Southern Tales and Other Chance Meetings
Henry Buchanan
Manufacturer: Creative Arts Book Company
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A collection of Southern Saroyanesque stories of love, death, and daily life with charming and humorous twists. This pure and simple writer treats us to a literary feast of characters, involving blacks and whites, spanning the 30's through the 90's.
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The Goat Cried.......2000-07-15
A collection of Southern folk tales reminscent of John Steinbeck's style. The stories are deeply rooted in the Southern tradition of family life, discipline and the morals of country living which are virtually non-existent. An excellent example of morality dependent upon the situation the character is living.
Highly recommended for lovers of Southern humor and morality.
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Chance Encounters: True Stories of Unforeseen Meetings, With Unanticipated Results
A. C. Greene
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True, fascinating encounters with the famous and infamous, the well known and the not so well known told by a great story teller.
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A Chance Meeting
David Lawrence
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A cold Friday in December and Andrew Jackson was about his Christmas shopping, albeit reluctantly, when the meeting he had long dreamed of occuring takes place.But that chance meeting in Smiths was to have wide repercussions, not only upon his life, but also of the women he met, Mrs Louise Shaw. Phone calls would take place; these would lead to a secretively arranged intimate dinner that would change both of their lives, forever. Could this romantic event lead to a more lasting relationship? Was the desire deep enough in each of their hearts? The effect of this carefully arranged meeting and its unfolding consequences are only discovered by reading this graphic and sometimes chilling account.
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Chance Meeting
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Chance Meeting
Sherry Martin
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- Flannery O'Connor : Collected Works : Wise Blood / A Good Man Is Hard to Find / The Violent Bear It Away / Everything that Rises Must Converge / Essays & Letters (Library of America)
- Heart and Soul (The Hunters, Book 8)
- History: Fiction or Science? (Chronology, No. 1)
- History: Fiction or Science? (Chronology, No. 1)
- How to Succeed in the Game of Life: 34 Interviews with the World's Greatest Coaches
- I And Thou
- Imperial Leather: Race, Gender, and Sexuality in the Colonial Contest
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