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Volume four in The Works of James Agee series presents the writer's two most famous screenplays: for The African Queen, his collaboration with John Huston, and for The Night of the Hunter, the only film ever directed by actor Charles Laughton.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"- \/ - \/ -","offer_id":51098139918609,"sku":"","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":51098141655313,"sku":"NIN9781621902355","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/1621902358.jpg?v=1757414146"},{"product_id":"death-in-the-family-book-michael-a-lofaro-9781572335943","title":"A Death in the Family","description":"Published in 1957 to wide acclaim, James Agee's A Death in the Family was posthumously awarded the Pulitzer Prize for literature. However, the novel had been so heavily edited by publisher and editor David McDowell that it little resembled the manuscript that James Agee had completed at the time of his death. The inaugural title of the University of Tennessee Press's scholarly edition of The Works of James Agee, this restored text of A Death in the Family is, in many ways, a new novel.   This volume provides, for the first time, a modern critical edition of Agee's manuscript, a novel based upon his childhood and his attempts to understand the death of his father. The new introduction is a revealing nightmare rather than an idyllic reverie; the book includes ten and one-third previously omitted chapters, substitutes three finished chapters for erroneously printed drafts, and is divided into forty-five chapters rather than twenty; it is chronological and has no flashback chapters; real names of people and places are used, as are more regional speech patterns; and young Rufus (based on young James), his father, and their deep and caring relationship are far more fully developed. All are changes that showcase the intended autobiographical realism of the novel.  This comprehensive edition also provides the reader with an introductory essay, a way to read the McDowell edition from it for purposes of comparison, Agee's draft of his memories of his father's death, unfinished letters to his parents, manuscript variants, and textual notes which document each part of the reconstruction.  The edition has received the approval of the Committee on Scholarly Editions of the Modern Language Association.  Wonderfully evocative, this exciting reconstruction of A Death in the Family provides a firmer sense of Agee's achievement as a writer of creative non-fiction and presents his literary genius to a new generation of readers.  Michael A. Lofaro is professor of American literature and American and cultural studies at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. 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Having published his first volume of poetry at just twenty-five years of age, he did not publish any subsequent books of poetry, and no definitive collection of his poems was ever compiled—until now.   After years of diligently exploring Agee’s writings, including many manuscripts that were never published, Michael A. Lofaro and Jesse Graves have compiled and edited the Complete Poetry of James Agee, consisting of nearly four times the number of Agee’s poems than was previously accessible.   In addition to the meticulous textual preservation of the poems, the volume enhances readers’ understanding of Agee’s work with detailed annotations for each poem and a separate section for textual commentary, shedding light on Agee’s wide range of knowledge and his sometimes-idiosyncratic use of syntax and punctuation. Likewise, an extensive introduction sets the stage for the collection, contextualizing Agee’s poetry within his other works. While literary scholars will appreciate this comprehensive collection of Agee’s extant poetry, general readers will be astonished at the breadth of yet another genre in the work of this protean writer.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":51103978782993,"sku":"NIN9781621909125","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/1621909123.jpg?v=1752317184"}],"url":"https:\/\/www.worldofbooks.com\/collections\/collected-works-of-james-agee-book-series.oembed","provider":"World of Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}