Sunday, June 15, 2008
A Death in the Family Gets a New Draft
Looks like I was not the only one dissastisfied with Agee's posthumous publishing. Michael A. Lofaro has gone through Agee's manuscript and reordered it, leaving out some of the strange flashbacks that I too found jarring in the story and adding what sounds like a fair amount of material. I haven't read the book, but this essay provides a good overview of the scope and differences in the new work.
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