Letters of James Agee To Father Flye
by James Agee
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- Hardcover
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Appears as unread, lightly read, unblemished copy in DJ displaying moderate surface/edge wear, as shown, with repaired closed and 1 open tear on back.
Inscribed "To My Dear Friends XXXX and XXXX XXXXXX in affection from Father Flye".
Ninety some letters over a thirty year period to an Episcopalian priest who was not only Agee's oldest friend but, in a way, his foster father. One of the most talented writers of his time. He had three wives, and four children. He drank to much. He drove himself beyond the endurance of any human being. This is a starkly revealing account of the internal and external life of a tortured 20th century genius.
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Synopsis
James Agee (1909–1955) was born in Knoxville, Tennessee. He graduated from Harvard in 1932 and was hired as a staff writer at Henry Luce’s Fortune magazine. His collection of poetry, Permit Me Voyage , won the Yale Series of Younger Poets competition and was published in 1934. Though he hoped to dedicate himself full-time to poetry and fiction, Agee would remain a Time, Inc., writer for fourteen years, winning high praise from Luce himself, who considered Agee’s Fortune essay on the Tennessee Valley Authority to be the best the magazine ever published. (For his part, Agee fantasized about shooting Luce.) His book about Alabama tenant farmers during the Depression, Let Us Now Praise Famous Men , a collaboration with the photographer Walker Evans, appeared in 1941. The book was a commercial and critical failure, selling just six hundred copies in its first year of publication. Agee was later renowned for his film criticism, which appeared regularly in The Nation and Time . He cowrote the screenplays for The African Queen and The Night of the Hunter , as well as a screenplay for Charlie Chaplin, though it was never produced. Agee died of a heart attack in a New York City taxicab at forty-five. Two years later, his novel, A Death in the Family , was published and won the Pulitzer Prize. Let Us Now Praise Famous Men was republished in 1960 and hailed, on its rerelease, as an American classic. In 2013, Cotton Tenants: Three Families , a rediscovered magazine article about the Alabama tenant families, was published to critical acclaim. James Harold Flye (1884–1985) was an Episcopal priest and teacher. He spent thirty-six years at St. Andrew’s school in Tennessee, and later served as a pastor at St. Luke’s in New York. Robert Phelps (1922–1989) was an editor, author, and translator. He was a cofounder of Grove Press and edited works by Colette and Jean Cocteau.
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- Eve's Reads (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- #885-11419
- Title
- Letters of James Agee To Father Flye
- Author
- James Agee
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Good-
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Unstated, Presumed 1st
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- George Braziller
- Place of Publication
- New York, NY
- Date Published
- 1962
- Pages
- 235
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- Writers Bio
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