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Twelve Years: An American Boyhood in East Germany

Twelve Years: An American Boyhood in East Germany

Agee, Joel

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ISBN10: 0226010503
ISBN13: 9780226010502
Publisher: Univ Of Chicago Pr
Published: Jun 1 2000
Pages: 334
Weight: 0.84
Height: 0.82 Width: 5.71 Depth: 8.55
Language: English
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 Isherwood

Twelve Years consists of a series of finely honed anecdotes written in a precise, supple prose rich with sensual detail. -David Ghitelman, Newsday

By turns poetic and picturesque, Agee energetically catalogues his expatriate passage to manhood with a pinpoint eye and a healthy American distaste for pretension. . . . Huckleberry Finn would have . . . welcomed [him] as a soulmate on the raft. -J. D. Reed, Time

A triumph. . . . Unfettered by petty analysis or quick explanations, a story that is timeless and ageless and vital. -Robert Michael Green, Baltimore Sun

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