Cotton Tenants: Three Families

by James Agee

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A re-discovered masterpiece of reporting by a literary icon and a celebrated photographer In 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...

Format:Hardcover

Language:English

ISBN:1612192122

ISBN13:9781612192123

Release Date:May 2013

Publisher:Melville House Publishing

Length:224 Pages

Weight:0.99 lbs.

Dimensions:0.7" x 5.9" x 7.8"

Related Subjects

Poverty Southern Culture The Great Depression Non-Fiction Family Struggles History Literary Literary Criticism & Collections Literature Literature & Fiction

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