Jay Follet muere en accidente de tráfico cuando regresa a casa después de atender una emergencia familiar. Su ausencia marca las vidas de su esposa, Mary, y de sus dos hijos de corta edad, Rufus y la pequeña Catherine. A través...
En 1941, James Agee y Walker Evans publicaron Ahora elogiemos a hombres famosos, un documento de 400 páginas sobre tres familias de agricultores arrendatarios en el condado de Hale, Alabama, en plena Gran Depresión. El orígen de ese...
"James Agee changed American film criticism. This book shows why. We have for the first time all of Agee's reflections, published and unpublished, on the art he loved most. Agee's penetrating mind, patient eye, and lyrical prose show that...
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, in a chur...
In the summer of 1936, writer James Agee and photographer Walker Evans, on assignment. for Fortune magazine, went to central Alabama to document the lives of three white. sharecropper families. Ageeâs editors killed...
For the first time in book form-a great writer's 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 differenc...
The American classic, in words and photographs, of three tenant families in the deep South. Published nearly sixty years ago, Let Us Now Praise Famous Men stands as an undisputed American masterpiece, taking its place alongside works by Henry David Thorea...
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 Now...