Cotton Tenants: Three Families

by James Agee

Book Overview

A re-discovered masterpiece of reporting by a literary icon and a celebrated photographer In 1941, James Agee and Walker Evans published Let Us Now Praise Famous Men , a four-hundred-page prose symphony about three tenant farming families in Hale County, Alabama at the height of the Great Depression. The book shattered journalistic and literary conventions. Critic Lionel Trilling called it the "most realistic and most important moral effort of our...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1612192122
• ISBN13: 9781612192123
• Release Date: May 2013
• Publisher: Melville House Publishing
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 0.99 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.9" x 7.8"