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A death in the family : a restoration of the author's text
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- Creator
- edited by Michael A. Lofaro
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- English
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- First edition
- Knoxville : University of Tennessee Press, [2007]
- ©2007
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- xxxiii, 582 pages : portrait ; 24 cm
- ISBNs
- 9781572335943, 1572335947
- OCLC
- ocm86110082
- Includes bibliographical references.
- James Agee's A Death in the Family -- "towards the middle of the twentieth century" -- "This little boy you live in": Perceptions c. 1911-1912 -- The Surprise: 1912 -- "Enter the Ford": Travel, 1913-1916 -- May 17, 1916: The Day Before -- Daytime: May 18, 1916 -- Evening: May 18, 1916 -- Morning: May 19, 1916 -- "all the way home": The Last Day -- Textual Commentary and Notes -- Major Manuscript Variants -- Marginal Notes -- Word Choice Where No Preference Is Indicated -- Paragraphing -- Appendices -- I. How to Read the Corrected McDowell Edition of A Death in the Family from This Text and a Chart of Substantive Corrections to the Library of America Edition of A Death in the Family -- II. A Structural Comparison of the Restored and the McDowell Editions -- III. "Knoxville: Summer of 1915" -- IV. Agee's Memories of His Father's Accident and the Day Before -- V. Unfinished Draft of Agee's Letter to His Father -- VI. Unfinished Draft of Agee's Letter to His Mother -- VII. Letter from Agee's Mother [Mrs. Erskine (Laura Tyler Agee) Wright] Concerning A Death in the Family -- VIII. Outline and Possible Introduction to Agee's Massive Autobiographical Project and the Place of "This book" in It