{"title":"James Agee","description":"James Agee (1909­-1955) is the author of Let Us Now Praise Famous Men, the renowned study of Alabama sharecroppers during the Depression. Born in Tennessee, he died two years before the publication of A Death in the Family, his most famous work.","products":[{"product_id":"let-us-now-praise-famous-men-three-tenant-families-paperback","title":"Let Us Now Praise Famous Men: Three Tenant Families - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003ePulitzer Prize-winning author James Agee and renowned photgrapher Walker Evans's Let Us Now Praise Famous Men is a landmark work of American photojournalism \"renowned for its fusion of social conscience and artistic radicality\" (The New York Times)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn the summer of 1936, James Agee and Walker Evans set out on assignment 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 Praise Famous Men was first published to enormous critical acclaim. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis unsparing record of place, of the people who shaped the land and the rhythm of their lives, is intensely moving and unrelentingly honest, and today -- recognized by the New York Public Library as one of the most influential books of the twentieth century -- it stands as a poetic tract of its time. With an elegant design as well as a sixty-four-page photographic prologue featuring archival reproductions of Evans's classic images, this historic edition offers readers a window into a remarkable slice of American history.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51366073336031,"sku":"9780618127498","price":22.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/bbKxJKVJWV9780618127498.webp?v=1789080755"},{"product_id":"a-death-in-the-family-paperback-1","title":"A Death in the Family - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe classic American novel--winner of the 1958 Pulitzer Prize\u003cb\u003e--now\u003c\/b\u003e re-published for the 100th anniversary of James Agee\u003cb\u003e'\u003c\/b\u003es birth \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eOne of \u003ci\u003eTime\u003c\/i\u003e's All-Time 100 Best Novels\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eA Penguin Classic\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePublished in 1957, two years after its author's death at the age of forty-five, \u003ci\u003eA Death in the Family\u003c\/i\u003e remains a near-perfect work of art, an autobiographical novel that contains one of the most evocative depictions of loss and grief ever written. As Jay Follet hurries back to his home in Knoxville, Tennessee, he is killed in a car accident--a tragedy that destroys not only a life, but also the domestic happiness and contentment of a young family. A novel of great courage, lyric force, and powerful emotion, \u003ci\u003eA Death in the Family\u003c\/i\u003e is a masterpiece of American literature.","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51369144582367,"sku":"9780143105718","price":17.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/pKwGcXqUgG9780143105718.webp?v=1789139237"},{"product_id":"the-morning-watch-paperback","title":"The Morning Watch - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Morning Watch\u003c\/em\u003e 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 church school in the Tennessee mountains. In this story of change and visitations, Agee has come close to a small triumph: he has pierced the protective shell of a boy's personality and exposed his religious exaltation without once falling into bathos. During his watch in the chapel, Richard's deepest thoughts and feelings are disturbed by weak flesh and childish imaginings. In tone, image, movement, and occasional obscure symbolism, this short novel has something of the quality of a dark poem, plumbing the inextricability of good, evil, beauty, preposterousness, the simple, and the unfathomable, in more or less ordinary sensations and motives. It is a story clear on its surface, but beneath that surface dreamlike in its complexity and ambiguity. Its rare mix of perception and disciplined lyricism have made this novel a minor classic.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51374135148767,"sku":"9781621386834","price":21.53,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/ZqdGhV7WIt9781621386834.webp?v=1789171998"}],"url":"https:\/\/blackandbarhe.com\/collections\/james-agee.oembed","provider":"Black \u0026 Barhe Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}