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  • A Death in the Family

    by James Agee ...
    Forty years after its original publication, James Agee's last novel seems, more than ever, an American classic. For in his lyrical, sorrowful account of a man's death and its impact on his family, Agee painstakingly created a small world of domestic happiness and then showed how quickly and casually it could be destroyed.On a sultry summer night in 1915, Jay Follet leaves his house in Knoxville, ... Read more

    $14.99 CAD

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  • A Death in the Family

    by James Agee ...
    Set in Knoxville, Tennessee, A Death in the Family is an autobiographical novel by author James Agee. Published posthumously in 1957, A Death in the Family won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1958. The novel is based on events that took place in 1915 when Agee’s father was killed in a car accident coming back from his own father’s funeral. The novel was adapted into a Pulitzer-Prize winning play ... Read more

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  • Letters of James Agee to Father Flye

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    by James Agee, James Harold Flye ...
    Collection of letters author, poet, screenwriter and film critic James Rufus Agee (1909 - 1955) and 1958 posthumous recipient of the Pulitzer for his autobiographical novel, A Death in the Family (1957), wrote to Episcopal priest Father James Harold Flye. Father Flye was both close friend and spiritual confidant. The letters span 30 years—from Agee's entrance to Phillips Exeter to his death in ... Read more

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  • A Death in The Family

    by James Agee ...
    The novel is based on the events that occurred to Agee in 1915 when his father went out of town to see his own father, who had suffered a heart attack. During the return trip, Agee's father was killed in a car accident. The novel provides a portrait of life in Knoxville, Tennessee, showing how such a loss affects the young widow, her two children, her atheist father and the dead man's ... Read more

    $2.50 CAD

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    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Let Us Now Praise Famous Men

    Depression-Era Sharecroppers, Documentary Prose, and the Ethics of Witness in Rural Alabama

    by James Agee ...
    James Agee's Let Us Now Praise Famous Men (1941), created with photographer Walker Evans, is a landmark of American documentary literature. Commissioned originally by Fortune, it examines the lives of three Alabama sharecropping families during the Great Depression, combining ethnographic observation, political critique, meditative autobiography, and experimental prose. Evans's austere photographs ... Read more

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  • Brooklyn Is

    Southeast of the Island: Travel Notes

    by James Agee, Jonathan Lethem ...
    "Agee's prose poem captures the textural variety of Brooklyn in language that bears reading aloud for its lilt, melody, and pleasingly pungent vocabulary." — Booklist (starred review)For the first time in book form—from the Pulitzer Prize–winning authorForeword by Jonathan Lethem, author Motherless BrooklynIn 1939, James Agee was assigned to write an article on Brooklyn for a special issue of Fort ... Read more

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  • Letters of James Agee to Father Flye

    by James Agee ...
    Series series Neversink
    “I’ll croak before I write ads or sell bonds—or do anything except write.”James Agee’s father died when he was just six years old, a loss immortalized in his Pulitzer Prize–winning novel, A Death in the Family. Three years later, Agee’s mother moved the mourning family from Knoxville, Tennessee, to the campus of St. Andrew’s, an Episcopal boarding school near Sewanee.There, Agee met Father James ... Read more

    $12.79 CAD

  • The Morning Watch

    A Southern Coming-of-Age Novel of Faith, Shame, and Spiritual Longing at a Tennessee Episcopal School

    by James Agee ...
    James Agee's *The Morning Watch* (1951) is a compressed, intensely lyrical novella about Richard, a twelve-year-old boy at a Southern Episcopal boarding school, who keeps vigil in the chapel during the hours before Easter morning. Through the child's fluctuating consciousness—part prayer, part fantasy, part moral self-interrogation—Agee examines sexuality, guilt, religious aspiration, and the ... Read more

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  • A Death in the Family

    A Lyrical American Novel of Childhood, Grief, Faith, and Family Mourning in Knoxville, Tennessee

    by James Agee ...
    James Agee's A Death in the Family is a profoundly intimate, formally daring novel about the sudden death of Jay Follet and its consequences for his wife, Mary, their children, and the wider community of 1915 Knoxville, Tennessee. Drawing closely on Agee's own childhood experience, the narrative moves between domestic realism, lyrical interior monologue, shifting points of view, and vividly ... Read more

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  • Let Us Now Praise Famous Men

    by Walker Evans, James Agee ...
    Pulitzer Prize-winning author James Agee and renowned photgrapher Walker Evans's Let Us Now Praise Famous Men is a landmark work of American photojournalism “renowned for its fusion of social conscience and artistic radicality” (The New York Times)In the summer of 1936, James Agee and Walker Evans set out on assignment for Fortune magazine to explore the daily lives of sharecroppers in the South. ... Read more

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  • The Morning Watch

    by James Agee ...
    “The Morning Watch” explores the thoughts and feelings of 12-year-old Richard, a student at an Episcopal boarding school (based on the author's schooling at St. Andrew's-Sewanee School in Sewanee, Tennessee), over the course of a few hours in the early morning of Good Friday. The protagonist is a boy (roughly myself) at edge of puberty, peak of certain kinds of hypersensitive introversion, ... Read more

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  • A Death in the Family. Illustrated

    by James Agee ...
    James Agee’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, A Death in the Family, is a deeply moving and beautifully crafted exploration of grief, family, and the fragility of life. Set in Knoxville, Tennessee, in the early 20th century, the novel is a semi-autobiographical account of the sudden death of a father and the profound impact it has on those left behind. The story unfolds through the perspective of ... Read more

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