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In the summer of 1936, Agee and Evans set out on assignement for Fortune magazine to explore the daily lives of sharecroppers in the South. Their journey would prove an extraordinary collaboration and a watershed literary event when in 1941 Let Us...

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Published in 1957, two years after its author's death at the age of forty-five, A Death in the Family remains a near-perfect work of art, an autobiographical novel that contains one of the most evocative depictions of loss and grief ever writ...

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Agee's portrayal of the sweetness of day-to-day familial relations are powerful and poignant. His masterfully drawn characters take on a haunting reality in this vivid recreation of life -- and sudden death.

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Published in 1957, two years after its author's death at the age of forty-five, A Death in the Family remains a near-perfect work of art, an autobiographical novel that contains one of the most evocative depictions of loss and grief ever written. ...

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The need for cooperation among government agencies as well as an interdisciplinary approach to the increasingly challenging and complicated problem of managing park and wilderness areas prompted the University of Washington College of Forest Resou...

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The population of Asia is growing both larger and older. Demographically the most important continent on the world, Asia's population, currently estimated to be 4.2 billion, is expected to increase to about 5.9 billion by 2050. Rapid declines...

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A compelling story of place, "Steward's Fork" explores northwest California's magnificent Klamath Mountains - a region that boasts a remarkable biodiversity, a terrain so rugged that significant landscape features are still being discove...

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A compelling story of place, Steward's Fork explores northwest California's magnificent Klamath Mountains-a region that boasts a remarkable biodiversity, a terrain so rugged that significant landscape features are still being discovered there, and...

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An illustrated portrayal of three Alabama sharecropper families in 1936 examines their everyday existence in poverty.

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For the first time in book forma great writers classic celebration of the essence of Brooklyn. In 1939, James Agee was assigned to write an article on Brooklyn for a special issue of Fortune on New York City. The draft was rejected for creative di...

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"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...

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The Morning Watch by James Agee, like his A Death in the Family, which won him the Pulitzer Prize, is autobiographical. It describes the experiences of twelve-year-old Richard during the early hours of Good Friday and the early stages of spring, i...

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The Morning Watch by James Agee, like his A Death in the Family, which won him the Pulitzer Prize, is autobiographical. It describes the experiences of twelve-year-old Richard during the early hours of Good Friday and the early stages of spring, i...

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This second volume in The Library of America's two-volume Agee edition includes Agee on Film, previously uncollected film criticism, Agee's screenplay for The Night of the Hunter, and much more.

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Ein kolossaler Klassiker der amerikanischen Literatur: politisches Dokument und poetischer Traktat, das künstlerische Zeugnis einer Epoche. Im Sommer 1936 waren der 27jährige Dichterjournalist James Agee und der Fotograf Walker Evans in den amerik...

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Las cartas que aparecen en este libro son, sobre todas las cosas, un monumento a la camaraderÿa y la amistad sincera y duradera. Luego de perder a su padre a los seis años, James Agee se mudó con su madre a Knoxville, Tennesse, donde se matricu...

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