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Cotton Tenants Three Families

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ISBN-10: 1612193986

ISBN-13: 9781612193984

Edition: 2014

Authors: James Agee, Walker Evans, Adam Haslett, John Summers

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A re-discovered masterpiece of reporting by a literary icon and a celebrated photographerIn 1941, James Agee and Walker Evans published Let Us Now Praise Famous Men, a four-hundred-page prose symphony about three tenant farming families in Hale County, Alabama at the height of the Great Depression. The book shattered journalistic and literary conventions. Critic Lionel Trilling called it the "most realistic and most important moral effort of our American generation."The origins of Agee and Evan's famous collaboration date back to an assignment for Fortune magazine, which sent them to Alabama in the summer of 1936 to report a story that was never published. Some have assumed that Fortune's…    
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Book details

List price: $16.95
Copyright year: 2014
Publisher: Melville House Publishing
Publication date: 9/19/2014
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 224
Size: 5.51" wide x 7.52" long x 0.51" tall
Weight: 0.792
Language: English