Brooklyn Is: Southeast of the Island: Travel Notes

by James Agee

Book Overview

For the first time in book form-a great writer's classic celebration of the essence of Brooklyn.

In 1939, James Agee was assigned to write an article on Brooklyn for a special issue of Fortune on New York City. The draft was rejected for "creative differences," and remained unpublished until it appeared in Esquire in 1968 under the title "Southeast of the Island: Travel Notes."

Crossing the borough from the brownstone...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0823224929
• ISBN13: 9780823224920
• Release Date: October 2005
• Publisher: Fordham University Press
• Length: 64 Pages
• Weight: 0.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.1" x 7.6"