Gina's review
Let Us Now Praise Famous Men
by James Agee
Gina's review
Let Us Now Praise Famous Men by James Agee
Gina's review
rating:
What started out to be a Fortune mag story on the white slavery of the tenement farmers in the south turned into Mr. Agee's crazed obsession.
This is one of my favorite books of all time largely due to Walker Evans photos and the forward that he writes about his colleague.
Agee documents the hardships of these real-life characters in poetic detail. He gives whole chapters to "denim" and "cows". The importance of this book is not the characters however, but the true autobiography that it becomes. The book is a bit tedious at times but what keeps it going is the underlying story of Agee's troubles.
He lost his family because of this book. His friends and colleagues couldn't persuade him to come home.
I think the family he writes about; glorifying their poverty are much better off than he was.
This is one of my favorite books of all time largely due to Walker Evans photos and the forward that he writes about his colleague.
Agee documents the hardships of these real-life characters in poetic detail. He gives whole chapters to "denim" and "cows". The importance of this book is not the characters however, but the true autobiography that it becomes. The book is a bit tedious at times but what keeps it going is the underlying story of Agee's troubles.
He lost his family because of this book. His friends and colleagues couldn't persuade him to come home.
I think the family he writes about; glorifying their poverty are much better off than he was.
