Monica's review
A Death in the Family
by James Agee
It can't be just my imagination - your language here became softer, slower, sweeter. Channeling Agee are you? Or should I say channeling McDowell. Wonder what you would sound like reviewing Chuck Palahniuk's Snuff? Stop that, ginnie. By the way, eons ago Agee wrote the script for a dramatic play about the young Lincoln for a TV program called Omnibus (Sunday afternoon, hosted by Alastair Cooke, sponsored by Alcoa) that was so special it has stayed with me for nearly fifty years.
And I bought a book of Agee's movie reviews at Daedalus Books for $2.00 - what a bargain.
Sure drifted off the subject - that's where free association takes me.
No, I don't think you've drifted anywhere, at least drifting on the subject of Agee is a great place to drift and I'll drif along with you. I have to google Palahniuk and then see if I can netflix that Omnibus play about Lincoln. Thanks for the complement about channeling Agee. I had a journalism prof in college who recognized this in me, too and was very disappointed I wanted to be an art director. You make me want to keep reading Agee. What a good thing!
does anyone know the right number of pages for this book, for when i clicked on the image, it said 10. i can change it, but i do not have the data. thanks.
You mean this edition with the butterfly? I'll fix it if I can.
the one pictured above
Hi Noran,
I fixed it. 318 pages. Good catch, sorry.
Monica's review
A Death in the Family by James Agee
Monica's review
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original note: This book so far is giving me some comfort.
It's on a list of the 101 best novels since 1923 http://www.time.com/time/2005/... that I haven't studied yet, but think it may sit better with me than the 1001 previously discussed.
This Bantam edition I guess I've had since 1983. It says it's the 13th printing and portions were previously published in The Partisan Review, The Cambridge Review, The New Yorker, and Harper's Bazaar: all publications worthy of such incredible writing. One half to three quarters of the way through, I felt like I was reading an outstanding classic like F. Scott Fitzgerald's "Tender Is The Night", or something the caliber of a great Eugene O'Neill play, with brilliant dialogue, insightful , contradictory thoughts which juxtaposed character's spoken words and actions. Agee portrays guilty sibling behavior as only an older brother could with an annoying younger sister. He p...more
It's on a list of the 101 best novels since 1923 http://www.time.com/time/2005/... that I haven't studied yet, but think it may sit better with me than the 1001 previously discussed.
This Bantam edition I guess I've had since 1983. It says it's the 13th printing and portions were previously published in The Partisan Review, The Cambridge Review, The New Yorker, and Harper's Bazaar: all publications worthy of such incredible writing. One half to three quarters of the way through, I felt like I was reading an outstanding classic like F. Scott Fitzgerald's "Tender Is The Night", or something the caliber of a great Eugene O'Neill play, with brilliant dialogue, insightful , contradictory thoughts which juxtaposed character's spoken words and actions. Agee portrays guilty sibling behavior as only an older brother could with an annoying younger sister. He p...more
It can't be just my imagination - your language here became softer, slower, sweeter. Channeling Agee are you? Or should I say channeling McDowell. Wonder what you would sound like reviewing Chuck Palahniuk's Snuff? Stop that, ginnie. By the way, eons ago Agee wrote the script for a dramatic play about the young Lincoln for a TV program called Omnibus (Sunday afternoon, hosted by Alastair Cooke, sponsored by Alcoa) that was so special it has stayed with me for nearly fifty years.And I bought a book of Agee's movie reviews at Daedalus Books for $2.00 - what a bargain.
Sure drifted off the subject - that's where free association takes me.
No, I don't think you've drifted anywhere, at least drifting on the subject of Agee is a great place to drift and I'll drif along with you. I have to google Palahniuk and then see if I can netflix that Omnibus play about Lincoln. Thanks for the complement about channeling Agee. I had a journalism prof in college who recognized this in me, too and was very disappointed I wanted to be an art director. You make me want to keep reading Agee. What a good thing!
does anyone know the right number of pages for this book, for when i clicked on the image, it said 10. i can change it, but i do not have the data. thanks.
You mean this edition with the butterfly? I'll fix it if I can.
the one pictured above
Hi Noran,I fixed it. 318 pages. Good catch, sorry.