Father Cawder dreams about the arrival of the carnival and the hubbub it will bring, but he cannot anticipate the heated tragedy of lovers Stella and Diamond, or the harsh judgment of his neighbor Mrs. Girard. With characters that leap off the page and stay with you long after the final lines, The Encounter is a shattering Southern novel and a landmark work of literature, now back in print for a new audience.|Crawford Power was born in 1909 and lived in Leesburg, Virginia, until his death in 1987. The Encounter was his only novel, published to acclaim in 1950.
