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mickeymole's review
5.0
For anyone who likes to read letters, this collection is fantastic and fascinating.
amittaizero's review
3.0
So, [a:Saul Bellow|4391|Saul Bellow|https://images.gr-assets.com/authors/1470607356p2/4391.jpg] once said: "Maybe America didn't need art and inner miracles. It had so many outer ones. The USA was a big operation, very big. The more it, the less we."
In these letters Agee is painfully uncertain of himself. His self-loathing is his lodestar but he wants love, and to make love real for others. I read these letters after having read his major works - the stuff for which he's famous. He drank, smoke, and stressed himself to death - at the end of his life succumbing to an orgy of heart attacks big and small. I could feel me deteriorating with him.
In these letters Agee is painfully uncertain of himself. His self-loathing is his lodestar but he wants love, and to make love real for others. I read these letters after having read his major works - the stuff for which he's famous. He drank, smoke, and stressed himself to death - at the end of his life succumbing to an orgy of heart attacks big and small. I could feel me deteriorating with him.
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