Twelve years : an American boyhood in East Germany /
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 writer.
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Chicago :
University of Chicago Press,
2000.
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| Online Access: | Publisher description |
| Summary: | 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 writer. |
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| Item Description: | "Portions of this book first appeared in Harper's, Marxist perspectives, and The New Yorker"--Title page verso. |
| Physical Description: | 324 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm |
| ISBN: | 0226010503 9780226010502 |