Letters of James Agee to Father Flye (Literature History) pdf torrent

G. Braziller | 1962 | Pdf | Eng | 235 pag | 32.7 MB

When he died in 1955, James Agee had publihshed three books—a volume of verse, a short novel, and a wholly sui-generis prose commentary called Let Us Now Praise Famous Men.
Since then, his literary executors have added three more: two collections of Agee on Film and the Pulitzer Prize novel—later dramatized—A Death in the Family, combining to form a body of work which easily assures him a unique place in American literature.
The present edition amounts to ninety some letters written over a period of thirty years to an Episcopalian priest who was not only the author's oldest friend, but, in a way, his foster father. Beginning in 1925, when Agee was still a student at Exeter, they annotate his abundant life as an American writer and maverick soul until the very day of his death, by heart attack, in May, 1955