James Agee: Let Us Now Praise Famous Men, a Death in the Family, Shorter Fiction (Library of America)
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| Rating | : | 4.39 (517 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1931082812 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 818 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-11-22 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
A whole world, with its sensory vividness and social constraints, comes to life in this child's-eye view of a few catastrophic days. This volume also includes The Morning Watch (1951), an autobiographical novella that reflects Agee's deep involvement with religious questions, and three short stories including the remarkable allegory "A Mother's Tale.". This volume collects his fiction along with his extraordinary experiment in what might be called prophetic journalism, Let Us Now Praise Famous Men (1941), a collaboration with photographer Walker Evans that began as an assignment from Fortune magazine to report on the lives of Alabama sharecroppers, and that expanded into a vast and unique mix of reporting, poetic meditation, and anguished self-revelation that Agee described as "an effort in human actuality." A 64-page photo insert reproduces Evans's now iconic photographs from the expanded 1960 edition. A Death in the Family, the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel that he worked on for over a decade and that was published posthumousl
His reviews and essays have appeared in numerous magazines and newspapers, including Rolling Stone, the San Francisco Examiner, and The New Yorker. Michael Sragow, editor, is the film critic for the Baltimore Sun and author of a forthcoming biography of Victor Fleming.
An American Classic This recently reissued collecton of Agee's work includes the brilliant, touching photos of Walker Evans with James Agee, photos made during the Depression Era of the 'thirties. Agee's writings are true Americana, his prose flows and the reader is made a part of the families about which he writes. This compilation belongs in the library of anyone concerned with human feelings in times of hurtin', hunger, and need. If you lived through the time,as I did, you will know it again through Agee's superb reflections on it.. M. Dog said A masterful writer at work.. This is a great book by one of America's great, overlooked writers. Thank Heavens Library of America understands his worth.I read Let Us Now Praise Famous Men when I was a teenager, and it struck me then as something very unique, powerful, and transcendently beautiful. It still does. When reading it again, in my 5A masterful writer at work. M. Dog This is a great book by one of America's great, overlooked writers. Thank Heavens Library of America understands his worth.I read Let Us Now Praise Famous Men when I was a teenager, and it struck me then as something very unique, powerful, and transcendently beautiful. It still does. When reading it again, in my 54th year, it reads almost like a long, gorgeous fever dream; as if Agee had reached some stratosphere of writing few artist ever do. I will always consider this work one of the greatest expressions of humanity ever writt. th year, it reads almost like a long, gorgeous fever dream; as if Agee had reached some stratosphere of writing few artist ever do. I will always consider this work one of the greatest expressions of humanity ever writt. "Rich Reading Experience" according to Theresa Williams. Lately, I find myself returning to literature written before I was born (1956). When I saw the review of LET US NOW PRAISE FAMOUS MEN in THE NEW YORKER, I became instantly convinced that I should purchase it. I'd known Agee's work since I was 1Rich Reading Experience Lately, I find myself returning to literature written before I was born (1956). When I saw the review of LET US NOW PRAISE FAMOUS MEN in THE NEW YORKER, I became instantly convinced that I should purchase it. I'd known Agee's work since I was 13, when I first read DEATH IN THE FAMILY. I belonged to the Scholastic Book Club and every month my mother gave me change out of her the bottom of her purse so I could buy the books I had faithfully marked on my order form. I was haunted by this book as a teen, and I remain haunted still. I. , when I first read DEATH IN THE FAMILY. I belonged to the Scholastic Book Club and every month my mother gave me change out of her the bottom of her purse so I could buy the books I had faithfully marked on my order form. I was haunted by this book as a teen, and I remain haunted still. I
In Let Us Now Praise Famous Men, Agee invented a new genre to convey his stark vision of the lives of Alabama tenant farmers; a 64-page photo insert reproduces Walker Evans's now iconic photographs from the expanded 1960 edition. In A Death in the Family, his great autobiographical novel presented here for the first time in a newly corrected text, he confronts in intimate emotional detail the impact of his father's death. This volume collects his two prose masterpieces along with other fiction. From the Back Cover James Agee was a writer of singular intensity and extraordinary gifts: compassionate, angry, provocative, and superbly inventive. To these works are added his novella The Morning Watch and three remarkable stories.