This book is a magazine article written for Fortune Magazine in 1936 and never published until this book. It was the first result of the on site research James Agee undertook in the rural south. Later he wrote now Let Us Praise Famous Men using this background. The writing style is formal, repo...
Rufus seldom had at all sharply the feeling that he and his father were estranged, yet they must have been, and he must have felt it, for always during these quiet moments on the rock a part of his sense of complete contentment lay in the feeling that they were reconciled, that there was really n...