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Cotton tenants : three families / James Agee ; [photographs by] Walker Evans ; edited by John Summers ; preface by Adam Haslett

By:

Agee, James, , 1909-1955

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Material type: Text

TextPublication details: Brooklyn, NY : Melville House , c2013Description: 224 p. : illus. ; 20 cmISBN:

9781612192123

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DDC classification:

976.1 AGE

LOC classification:

HN79.A4 A535 2013

Contents:

Business -- Shelter -- Food -- Clothing -- Work -- Picking season -- Education -- Leisure -- Health -- Appendix 1. On Negroes -- Appendix 2. Landowners.

Summary: On assignment for "Fortune" magazine in 1936, Agee and Evans set out to explore the plight of sharecroppers during the Great Depression. Published for the first time, Agee's original dispatch (accompanied by 25 of Evans' historic photographs) is an unsparing record of three families at a desperate time.

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Libro - Monografía	Biblioteca Pública de San Miguel de Allende, A.C.	976.1 AGE (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		012834

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Business -- Shelter -- Food -- Clothing -- Work -- Picking season -- Education -- Leisure -- Health -- Appendix 1. On Negroes -- Appendix 2. Landowners.

On assignment for "Fortune" magazine in 1936, Agee and Evans set out to explore the plight of sharecroppers during the Great Depression. Published for the first time, Agee's original dispatch (accompanied by 25 of Evans' historic photographs) is an unsparing record of three families at a desperate time.

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