Twelve Years: An American Boyhood in East Germany

by Joel Agee

Book Overview

Joel Agee, the son of James Agee, was raised for twelve years in East Germany, where his stepfather, the novelist Bodo Uhse, was a member of the privileged communist intelligentsia. This is the story of how young Joel failed to become a good communist, becoming instead a fine writer.

"A wonderfully evocative memoir. . . . Agee evoked for me the atmosphere of postwar Berlin more vividly than the actual experience of it--and I was there." --Christopher...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0226010503
• ISBN13: 9780226010502
• Release Date: June 2000
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 334 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.7" x 8.6"