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1	Death in the Family more books like this by James Agee Jay Follet, the father of a family in Knoxville, goes to visit his ailing father, who has suffered a heart attack. On his return trip, he is killed in an auto accident. The remainder of the novel examines the reaction of his wife, his 4-year-old daughter, and especially his 6-year-old son as they prepare for a final farewell. This book was ... see all copies from £1.41! new only from £8.02! \| first editions
2	Let Us Now Praise Famous Men: Three Tenant Families more books like this by James Agee, Walker Evans (Photographer) This documentary work on the cotton sharecroppers of Alabama began as an article for Fortune magazine but was rejected because Agee refused to adopt the sterile, objective voice of conventional journalism. The resulting book, published in 1941 with photos by Walker Evans, ultimately reveals as much about Agee as it did about his subjects. It also ... see all copies from £5.65! new only from £12.22! \| signed copies \| first editions
3	Let Us Now Praise Famous Men more books like this by James Agee, Walker Evans This documentary work on the cotton sharecroppers of Alabama began as an article for Fortune magazine but was rejected because Agee refused to adopt the sterile, objective voice of conventional journalism. The resulting book, published in 1941 with photos by Walker Evans, ultimately reveals as much about Agee as it did about his subjects. It also ... see all copies from £5.65! new only from £9.32! \| first editions
4	Letters of James Agee to Father Flye more books like this by James Agee see all copies from £4.48! new only from £28.53! \| signed copies \| first editions
5	James Agee: Let Us Now Praise Famous Men, a Death in the Family, & Shorter Fiction more books like this by James Agee, Michael Sragow (Editor) This documentary work on the cotton sharecroppers of Alabama began as an article for Fortune magazine but was rejected because Agee refused to adopt the sterile, objective voice of conventional journalism. The resulting book, published in 1941 with photos by Walker Evans, ultimately reveals as much about Agee as it did about his subjects. It also ... see all copies from £16.60! new only from £16.60! \| first editions
6	Agee on film more books like this by James Agee see all copies from £2.91! first editions
7	The morning watch more books like this by James Agee see all copies from £1.41! signed copies \| first editions
8	The Collected Short Prose of James Agee more books like this by James Agee see all copies from £6.34! new only from £10.10! \| first editions
9	A Death in the Family: A Restoration of the Author's Text more books like this by James Agee, Michael A Lofaro (Editor) Published in 1957 to wide acclaim, James Agee's A Death in the Family was posthumously awarded the Pulitzer Prize for literature. However, the novel had been so heavily edited by publisher and editor David McDowell that it little resembled the manuscript that James Agee had completed at the time of his death. The inaugural title of the University ... see all copies from £38.45! new only from £38.45!
10	The collected poems of James Agee more books like this by James Agee see all copies from £5.87! new only from £39.54! \| first editions
11	James Agee: Film Writing and Selected Journalism more books like this by James Agee, Michael Sragow (Editor) This second volume in The Library of America's two-volume Agee edition includes Agee on Film, previously uncollected film criticism, Agee's screenplay for The Night of the Hunter, and much more. see all copies from £14.82! new only from £21.01! \| first editions
12	Now Praise Famous Men more books like this by James Agee, Walker Evans see all copies from £6.35! first editions
13	James Agee: Selected Journalism more books like this by James Agee, Paul Ashdown, PH.D. (Editor) Seventeen pieces of Agee's work, heretofore uncollected. see all copies from £6.89! new only from £14.77! \| first editions
14	Agee: His Life Remembered more books like this by Ross Spears (Editor), Jude Cassidy (Editor), James Agee see all copies from £2.61! first editions
15	A Way of Seeing more books like this by James Agee, Helen Levitt see all copies from £50.13! signed copies \| first editions
16	A Southern Appalachian Reader more books like this by Thomas Wolfe, James Agee, Richard Chase An anthology of Appalachian literature designed for high school students, containing fiction, non-fiction, poetry, drama, ballads, and examples of mountain speech and song. see all copies from £8.41! first editions
17	Brooklyn Is: Southeast of the Island: Travel Notes more books like this by James Agee, Jonathan Lethem (Preface by) 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 differences," and remained unpublished until it appeared in Esquire in 1968 under the title ... see all copies from £6.72! new only from £11.59! \| first editions
18 view cover	Agee on Film: Criticism and Comment on the Movies more books like this by James Agee, David Denby (Introduction by), Martin Scorsese (Introduction by) A master of both fiction and non-fiction, James Agee, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of "a Death in the Family" wrote regularly about film in the clean, smart prose for which he is known. Gathered in this volume are his many criticisms and comments on the movies. see all copies from £11.75! new only from £16.37! \| first editions
19	Agee on Film Vol 2 Pa more books like this by James Agee see all copies from £5.65! first editions
20 view cover	Steward's Fork: A Sustainable Future for the Klamath Mountains more books like this by James K Agee A compelling story of place, "Steward's Fork "explores northwest California's magnificent Klamath Mountains--a region that boasts a remarkable biodiversity, a terrain so rugged that significant landscape features are still being discovered there, and a wealth of natural resources that have been used, and more recently abused, by humans for ... see all copies from £12.18! new only from £24.57! \| first editions
21	Agee on Film Vol 1 Pa more books like this by James Agee see all copies from £6.75! first editions
22	A Death in Family more books like this by James Agee Jay Follet, the father of a family in Knoxville, goes to visit his ailing father, who has suffered a heart attack. On his return trip, he is killed in an auto accident. The remainder of the novel examines the reaction of his wife, his 4-year-old daughter, and especially his 6-year-old son as they prepare for a final farewell. This book was ... see all copies from £28.92!
23	Collected Short Prose more books like this by James Agee see all copies from £6.00! first editions
24 view cover	James Agee Rediscovered: The Journals for 'Let Us Now Praise Famous Men' and Other New Manuscripts more books like this by James Agee, Hugh Davis (Editor), Michael A Lofaro (Editor) Novelist, journalist, film critic, poet, and activist James Agee (1909-1955) produced an impressive array of literary works spanning three decades. His poems, novels, essays, works of criticism, and screenplays gave profound social insights into the Depression-ridden 1930s and war-torn 1940s, and scholars study and debate his work to this day. ... see all copies from £33.00! new only from £33.00!
25	Permit Me Voyage by James Agee, A. MacLeish (Designed by) see all copies from £50.13! first editions

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