by James Agee
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Recommended by 2 sources and appears in Most Recommended Books and Fiction.
The classic American novel, republished for the 100th anniversary of James Agee's birthPublished in 1957, two years after its author's death at the age of fortyfive, A Death in the Family remains a nearperfect work of art, an autobiographical novel that contains one of the most evocative depictions of loss and grief ever written. As Jay Follet h...
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Recommended by 2 sources and appears in Most Recommended Books and Fiction.
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Judd Apatow
“I love A Fan’s Notes by Frederick Exley. Also— A Death In The Family by James Agee. I love all the Dave Eggers books. Carson McCullers. Lorrie Moore. Both Andre Dubus.”
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Consider The Republic by Plato. Recommended by 10 sources.
“Plato stages an extended Socratic conversation that moves from concrete questions about justice into broad proposals about an ideal city, the structure of the soul, and what counts as reality and knowledge. Reading alternates brisk question-and-answer snippets with long, cumulative demonstrations that reward careful attention and annotation. Main value: a wealth of thought experiments for testing political and ethical intuitions. Main limitation: repetitive refutations, long policy sketches and dense metaphysical passages can feel abstruse and slow; patience and some philosophical background help.”
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