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Let Us Now Praise Famous Men: The American Classic, in Words and Photographs, of Three Tenant Families in the Deep South

Walker Evans, James Agee
A Death In Family

James Agee

On a sultry summer night in 1915, Jay Follet leaves his house in Knoxville, Tennessee, to tend to his father, who he believes is dying. The summons turns out to be a false alarm, but on his way back to his family, Jay has a car accident and is killed instantly. Dancing back and forth in time and braiding the viewpoints of Jay's wife, brother, and young son, Rufus, Agee creates an overwhelming powerful novel of innocence, tenderness, and loss that should be read for the sheer music of its prose.
Collected Short Prose of James Agee

James Agee
GREAT MODERN READING: Petrified Man; The Visit; The Daring Young Man on the Flying Trapeze; Boy with His Hair Cut Short; Look Stranger At This Island Now; No Doubt Left Enough Deceiving; The Gift; The Erne from the Coast; The People vs Abe Lathan Colored

W. Somerset (editor) (Eudora Welty; Andy Logan; William Saroyan; Muriel Rukeyser; Stephen Spender; W. H. Auden; James Agee; John Steinbeck; T. O. Beachcroft; Elizabeth Bowen; Erskine Caldwell; Katharine Brush; H. E. Bates; John Collier) Maugham

W. Somerset Maugham's introduction to modern English and American literature.

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Let Us Now Praise Famous Men: The American Classic, in Words and Photographs, of Three Tenant Families in the Deep South