Brooklyn Is: Southeast of the Island: Travel Notes
Propulsive, lyrical, jazzy, and tender, its pitch-perfect descriptions endure even as Brooklyn changes; Agee's essay--originally written in 1939 but published in 1968--is a New York classic.
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- ISBN: 978-0-8232-2492-0
- EAN: 9780823224920
- Produktnummer: 1608101
- Verlag: Fordham Univ Pr
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2005
- Seitenangabe: 50 S.
- Masse: H19.9 cm x B13.4 cm x D1.2 cm 181 g
- Gewicht: 181
Über den Autor
James Agee (Author) James Agee was born in Knoxville, Tennessee, in 1909. One of the great prose stylists of the past century, Agee wrote in many forms-poetry, short stories, novels, essays, commentary, and criticism. In 1958 he won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction for A Death in the Family, and he also wrote the classic account of poor Southern farmers, Let Us Now Praise Famous Men, accompanied by Walker Evans's documentary photographs. With John Huston, he wrote the Oscar-nominated screenplay for The African Queen, and he was an influential film and theater critic for Time and The Nation. James Agee died in 1955 of a heart attack in a New York City taxicab. In the fall of 2005, the Library of America will publish a two-volume collection of his writings.Jonathan Lethem (Preface By) Jonathan Lethem's novels include Fortress of Solitude and Motherless Brooklyn, which won the National Book Critics Circle Award, his most recent book is The Disappointment Artist. Lethem was born and raised in Brooklyn, where he still lives.
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