In the House of My Fear by Joel Agee

In the House of My Fear by Joel Agee

In the spring of 1964, Joel Agee, not quite at home in his native New York (having spent much of his boyhood and youth behind the Iron Curtain), accidentally ingests a sizeable dose of LSD. All at once he is thrown from the precincts of bohemian normalcy into a whirl of bizarre synchronicities, symbols and omens. Nothing is ever the same again. Thirty years later a sobered Joel Agee sets himself the task of recounting his adventures. He begins as a memoirist, but the truth he is seeking is not just that of memory. This book is a rescue mission - to find the ghosts of his past he must write his way into the house of his fear.

Joel Agee is a translator and writer. For his translation of Heinrich von Kleist's verse play Penthesilea, he received the Helen and Kurt Wolff Award in 2008 and the Berlin Prize of the American Academy in Berlin in 2009. Twelve Years: An American Boyhood in East Germany and, more recently, In the Home of My Fear are his two memoirs. In 2013, the Getty Villa staged his translation of Prometheus Bound. He currently resides in Brooklyn, New York.

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ISBN 13	9781593760458
ISBN 10	1593760450
Title	In the House of My Fear
Author	Joel Agee
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Hardback
Publisher	Counterpoint
Year published	2004-10-04
Number of pages	416
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