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In 1939, the author was assigned to write an article on Brooklyn for a special issue of "Fortune". Crossing the borough from the brownstone heights over the Brooklyn Bridge and out through backstreet neighborhoods like Flatbush, he captured in 10,000 words, the essence of a place and its people. This book celebrates the essence of Brooklyn.
"...capable, brilliant and lofty..." -London Review of Books "...a dizzying if pointless Whitmanesque catalogue..." -The Nation " ... Whitmanesque, dreamy yet definitive..." -- -Brad Lockwood Brooklyn Daily Eagle "Agee is a wonderfully poetic writer, and he weaves a beautiful portrait of the borough, covering the people and places in every corner of Brooklyn's seventy-one miles." -Park Slope Reader "Agee's rhapsodically detailed essay/prose poem is a Whitmanessque catalog, evoking a Brooklyn of ordinary people..." -Berkshire Eagle " ... A fresh perspective on both the author and the borough." -Brooklyn Heights Press & Cobble Hill News "...A delightful read..." -Today in Literature
James Agee (Author)
James Agee was born in Knoxville, Tennessee, in 1909. One of the great prose stylists of the past century, Agee wrote in many forms—poetry, short stories, novels, essays, commentary, and criticism. In 1958 he won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction for A Death in the Family, and he also wrote the classic account of poor Southern farmers, Let Us Now Praise Famous Men, accompanied by Walker Evans’s documentary photographs. With John Huston, he wrote the Oscar-nominated screenplay for The African Queen, and he was an influential film and theater critic for Time and The Nation. James Agee died in 1955 of a heart attack in a New York City taxicab. In the fall of 2005, the Library of America will publish a two-volume collection of his writings.
Jonathan Lethem (Preface By)
Jonathan Lethem's novels include Fortress of Solitude and Motherless Brooklyn, which won the National Book Critics Circle Award, his most recent book is The Disappointment Artist. Lethem was born and raised in Brooklyn, where he still lives.
"...capable, brilliant and lofty..." -London Review of Books "...a dizzying if pointless Whitmanesque catalogue..." -The Nation " ... Whitmanesque, dreamy yet definitive..." -- -Brad Lockwood Brooklyn Daily Eagle "Agee is a wonderfully poetic writer, and he weaves a beautiful portrait of the borough, covering the people and places in every corner of Brooklyn's seventy-one miles." -Park Slope Reader "Agee's rhapsodically detailed essay/prose poem is a Whitmanessque catalog, evoking a Brooklyn of ordinary people..." -Berkshire Eagle " ... A fresh perspective on both the author and the borough." -Brooklyn Heights Press & Cobble Hill News "...A delightful read..." -Today in Literature
James Agee (Author)
James Agee was born in Knoxville, Tennessee, in 1909. One of the great prose stylists of the past century, Agee wrote in many forms—poetry, short stories, novels, essays, commentary, and criticism. In 1958 he won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction for A Death in the Family, and he also wrote the classic account of poor Southern farmers, Let Us Now Praise Famous Men, accompanied by Walker Evans’s documentary photographs. With John Huston, he wrote the Oscar-nominated screenplay for The African Queen, and he was an influential film and theater critic for Time and The Nation. James Agee died in 1955 of a heart attack in a New York City taxicab. In the fall of 2005, the Library of America will publish a two-volume collection of his writings.
Jonathan Lethem (Preface By)
Jonathan Lethem's novels include Fortress of Solitude and Motherless Brooklyn, which won the National Book Critics Circle Award, his most recent book is The Disappointment Artist. Lethem was born and raised in Brooklyn, where he still lives.