Letters of James Agee to Father Flye

✍ Scribed by James Agee

• Publisher: Melville House Pub
• Year: 2014
• Tongue: en-US
• Weight: 145 KB
• Category: Fiction
• ISBN-13: 9789781612190

✦ Synopsis

"I'll croak before I write ads or sell bonds--or do anything except write."

James Agee's father died when he was just six years old, a loss immortalized in his Pulitzer Prize--winning novel, A Death in the Family. Three years later, Agee's mother moved the mourning family from Knoxville, Tennessee, to the campus of St. Andrew's, an Episcopal boarding school near Sewanee.

There, Agee met Father James Harold Flye, who would become his history teacher. Though Agee was just ten, the two struck up an unlikely and enduring friendship, traveling Europe by bicycle and exchanging letters for thirty years, from Agee's admission to Exeter Academy to his death at forty-five. The intimate letters, collected by Father Flye after Agee's death, form the most intimate portrait of Agee available, a starkly revealing account of the internal and external life of a tortured twentieth-century genius. Agee candidly shares his struggles with depression, professional...