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Brooklyn Is: Southeast of the Island: Travel Notes

Brooklyn Is: Southeast of the Island: Travel Notes Hardcover - 2005

by AGEE, James

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Propulsive, lyrical, jazzy, and tender, its pitch-perfect descriptions endure even as Brooklyn changes; Agee's essay--originally written in 1939 but published in 1968--is a New York classic.

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New York: Fordham University Press, 2005. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Second printing. Octavo. 50pp. Fine in fine dust jacket.
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  • Title Brooklyn Is: Southeast of the Island: Travel Notes
  • Author AGEE, James
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Edition First Edition
  • Condition Used - Fine
  • Pages 64
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Fordham University Press, New York
  • Date 2005
  • Features Dust Cover, Table of Contents
  • Bookseller's Inventory # 582868
  • ISBN 9780823224920 / 0823224929
  • Weight 0.4 lbs (0.18 kg)
  • Dimensions 7.6 x 5.1 x 0.6 in (19.30 x 12.95 x 1.52 cm)
  • Themes
    • Chronological Period: 1930's
    • Chronological Period: 20th Century
    • Cultural Region: Mid-Atlantic
    • Cultural Region: Northeast U.S.
    • Geographic Orientation: New York
  • Library of Congress subjects New York (N.Y.) - Description and travel, New York (N.Y.) - Social life and customs -
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2005017577
  • Dewey Decimal Code 974.723

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  • Booklist, 09/15/2005, Page 24
  • Ingram Advance, 10/01/2005, Page 128
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About the author

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.

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