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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 1955.
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Decades 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, Tennessee, to tend to his father, whom he believes is dying....
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Las cartas que aparecen en este libro son, sobre todas las cosas, un monumento a la camaradería 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 matriculó en un internado episcopaliano. Allí trabó amistad con uno de sus maestros, el pastor James Harold Flye, con quien mantendría una larga e íntima relación epistolar desde los quince años hasta el...
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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. Their journey would prove an extraordinary collaboration and a watershed literary event when, in 1941, Let Us Now Praise Famous Men was first published to enormous critical acclaim. This unsparing record of place, of the people who shaped the land and the rhythm of their lives, is intensely moving...