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Brooklyn Is: Southeast of the Island: Travel Notes Hardback - 2005

by James Agee; Preface by Jonathan Lethem

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Propulsive, lyrical, jazzy, and tender, its pitch-perfect descriptions endure even as Brooklyn changes; Agee's essay--originally written in 1939 but published in 1968--is a New York classic.

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For the first time in book form--a great writer's classic celebration of the essence of Brooklyn.

In 1939, James Agee was assigned to write an article on Brooklyn for a special issue of Fortune on New York City. The draft was rejected for "creative differences," and remained unpublished until it appeared in Esquire in 1968 under the title "Southeast of the Island: Travel Notes."

Crossing the borough from the brownstone heights over the Brooklyn Bridge out through backstreet neighborhoods like Flatbush, Midwood, and Sheepshead Bay that roll silently to the sea, Agee captured in 10,000 remarkable words, the essence of a place and its people. Propulsive, lyrical, jazzy, and tender, its pitch-perfect descriptions endure even as Brooklyn changes; Agee's essay is a New York classic. Resonant with the rhythms of Hart Crane, Walt Whitman, and Thomas Wolfe, it takes its place alongside Alfred Kazin's A Walker in the City as a great writer's love-song to Brooklyn and alongside E. B. White's Here Is New York as an essential statement of the place so many call home.

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  • Title Brooklyn Is: Southeast of the Island: Travel Notes
  • Author James Agee; Preface by Jonathan Lethem
  • Binding Hardback
  • Edition First Edition
  • Pages 64
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Fordham University Press, New York, New York, U.S.A.
  • Publication date 2005-10-01
  • Features Dust Cover, Table of Contents
  • ISBN 9780823224920 / 0823224929
  • Weight 0.4 lbs (0.18 kg)
  • Dimensions 7.6 x 5.1 x 0.6 in (19.30 x 12.95 x 1.52 cm)
  • Themes
    • Chronological Period: 1930's
    • Chronological Period: 20th Century
    • Cultural Region: Mid-Atlantic
    • Cultural Region: Northeast U.S.
    • Geographic Orientation: New York
  • Category Literature - Classics / Criticism
  • Library of Congress subjects New York (N.Y.) - Description and travel, New York (N.Y.) - Social life and customs -
  • Library of Congress Catalogue Number 2005017577
  • Dewey Decimal Code 974.723

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Citations

  • Booklist, 09/15/2005, Page 24
  • Ingram Advance, 10/01/2005, Page 128
  • Reference and Research Bk News, 11/01/2006, Page 76

About the author

James Agee (Author)
James Agee was born in Knoxville, Tennessee, in 1909. One of the great prose stylists of the past century, Agee wrote in many forms--poetry, short stories, novels, essays, commentary, and criticism. In 1958 he won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction for A Death in the Family, and he also wrote the classic account of poor Southern farmers, Let Us Now Praise Famous Men, accompanied by Walker Evans's documentary photographs. With John Huston, he wrote the Oscar-nominated screenplay for The African Queen, and he was an influential film and theater critic for Time and The Nation. James Agee died in 1955 of a heart attack in a New York City taxicab. In the fall of 2005, the Library of America will publish a two-volume collection of his writings.

Jonathan Lethem (Preface By)
Jonathan Lethem's novels include Fortress of Solitude and Motherless Brooklyn, which won the National Book Critics Circle Award, his most recent book is The Disappointment Artist. Lethem was born and raised in Brooklyn, where he still lives.

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