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20%OFFJoel Agee - Twelve Years: An American Boyhood in East Germany - 9780226010502 - V9780226010502
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Twelve Years: An American Boyhood in East Germany

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Description for Twelve Years: An American Boyhood in East Germany Paperback. Joel Agee, the son of James Agee, was raised for 12 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. Num Pages: 330 pages, 4 halftones. BIC Classification: 1DFGE; BGA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 142 x 217 x 23. Weight in Grams: 460.
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 Lehmann-Haupt, New York Times

"One of those rare personal memoirs that brings to life a whole country and an epoch." —Christopher ... Read more

Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2000
Publisher
University Of Chicago Press
Number of pages
330
Condition
New
Number of Pages
334
Place of Publication
, United States
ISBN
9780226010502
SKU
V9780226010502
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