Volume 12, Number 10 · May 22, 1969
All-American
By Wilfrid Sheed
The Collected Short Prose of James Agee
edited, with a Memoir by Robert Fitzgerald
Houghton Mifflin, 243 pp., $5.95
James Agee was so much the American idea of a writer—wild, lunging, unfulfilled; boozy, self-destructive, sufficiently Southern; a refined model from the Thomas Wolfe prototype—that we still keep sniffing around his literary remains for the one work that would clinch it, the missing sonnet.
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